monotype

About 0.14 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun 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. noun The technique of making such prints.
3. noun A monotypic taxon.
4. noun A keyboard-operated typesetting and casting machine that makes and sets separate characters.
5. noun A sailboat designed to be crewed or raced by a single person.
6. noun In the Hindley–Milner type system, a single specific data type.
7. verb To produce a monotype of.

   to monotype an engraving

Similar words

monoprint phototypography drypoint autotypography lithotype metallograph impression nature printing platinotype aquatone

Often followed by

corporation bembo and machine baskerville in composition times garamond

Word family

Monotype monotypes