monotype

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Noun

monotype

1. (arts, printing) A print made by creating the design using oil paint or printer's ink on metal or glass, then transferring the image directly to paper.
2. (arts, printing, uncountable) The technique of making such prints.
3. (biology) A monotypic taxon.
4. A keyboard-operated typesetting and casting machine that makes and sets separate characters.
5. (sailing) A sailboat designed to be crewed or raced by a single person.
6. (comptheory) In the Hindley–Milner type system, a single specific data type.

   cot en

Verb

monotype (monotypes, present participle monotyping; past and past participle monotyped)

1. (transitive) To produce a monotype of.

   to monotype an engraving

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