monotype

/mon-uh-tahyp/US // ˈmɒn əˌtaɪp //UK // (ˈmɒnəˌtaɪp) //

单版,单版画,单版印刷,单版式

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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- : the only print made from a metal or glass plate on which a picture is painted in oil color, printing ink, or the like.
- : the method of producing such a print.
- : Biology. the only type of its group, as a single species constituting a genus.

You go back to the Monotype room and get a bunch of slugs and leads and saw them up to fill the cases.
It will be seen, therefore, that the casting portion of the monotype machine is actually automatic.
Now, the genus Zea is not only a monotype, but stands almost alone in its family.
Two distinctive styles of these machines are now extensively used—the Linotype and the Monotype.
The reason why the machine is called a monotype is that the letters are made one at a time, and monos is the Greek word for one.