monotype

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English

A monotype by Edgar Degas

Etymology

From mono- +‎ type or mono- +‎ -type. The printing technique is so called because it allows only one impression to be taken.

Noun

monotype (countable and uncountable, plural monotypes)

  1. (art, 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.[1]
  2. (art, 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. (computing theory) In the Hindley–Milner type system, a single specific data type.
    Coordinate term: polytype

Translations

Verb

monotype (third-person singular simple present monotypes, present participle monotyping, simple past and past participle monotyped)

  1. (transitive) To produce a monotype of.
    to monotype an engraving

References

  1. ^ West, Shearer (general editor), The Bullfinch Guide to Art History, page 639, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United Kingdom, 1996. →ISBN

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

monotype m (plural monotypes)

  1. monotype (not machine)

Noun

monotype f (plural monotypes)

  1. monotype (machine)

Further reading

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English monotype.

Noun

monotype f (invariable)

  1. monotype
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