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Linotype

  ('nə-tīp') pronunciation

A trademark used for a machine that sets type on a metal slug, operated by a keyboard.


 
 

Trademark name for a typesetting machine by which characters are cast in type metal as a complete line, rather than as individual characters (as on the Monotype typesetting machine). It was patented in 1884 by Ottmar Mergenthaler. It has now been almost entirely supplanted by photocomposition. In Linotype, a keyboard is manipulated to compose each line of text. The slugs produced by the machine are rectangular solids of type metal (an alloy of lead, antimony, and tin) with raised characters that are a mirror image of the desired printed line. After hot-metal casting, the slug of type, air-cooled briefly, is placed in a "stick" for insertion in the proper position into the press form being made up. See also letterpress printing, printing.

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WordNet: Linotype
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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: (trade mark) a typesetting machine operated from a keyboard that casts an entire line as a single slug of metal
  Synonym: Linotype machine


 
Translations: Linotype

Dansk (Danish)
n. - Linotype, liniestøbemaskine

Nederlands (Dutch)
zetmachine die per regel zet, regelzetmachine

Français (French)
n. - Linotype, lino

Deutsch (German)
n. - Linotype-Setzmaschine

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - λινοτυπία

Italiano (Italian)
linotype

Português (Portuguese)
n. - linotipo (m)

Русский (Russian)
набирать на линотипе, линотип

Español (Spanish)
n. - linotipo

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - linotype (sättmaskin som gjuter hela textrader)

中文(简体) (Chinese (Simplified))
整行式排字机, 行型活字印刷术, 行型活字

中文(繁體) (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 整行式排字機, 行型活字印刷術, 行型活字

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 자동식자주조기

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - ライノタイプ, 同種の機械
v. - ライノタイプで植字する

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) اللينوتين, المنضدة السطريه, ماكينه لتنفيذ الأحرف المطبعيه في سطور مسبوكه, السطور المسبوكه باللينوتين, طباعه تجري بهذه السطور‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮מסדרת שורות, לינוטייפ‬


 
 

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