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typesetting

/tahyp-set-ing/US // ˈtaɪpˌsɛt ɪŋ //

排版,排字,排印,活版印刷

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the process or action of setting an article, book, or other printed matter into type.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : used or intended for setting type.

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Examples

  • Suddenly you can hold forth about leading and kerning and other esoteric aspects of typesetting.

  • Like the telegraph as intended by Morse, there was the interposition of typesetting before a message could be sent.

  • He knew something of the delays of completing a typesetting machine, and he had little faith in any near relief from that source.

  • With much the same feeling the old-time hand compositors looked upon the coming of the typesetting machine.

  • It's a cleaner trade than typesetting and fussing round a small-town print shop.

  • Linotypes to spoil typesetting by hand, and now horseless carriages to stop driving horses!