Associations to the word «Monotype»

Wiktionary

MONOTYPE, noun. (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.
MONOTYPE, noun. (arts) (printing) The technique of making such prints.
MONOTYPE, noun. (biology) A monotypic taxon.
MONOTYPE, noun. A keyboard-operated typesetting and casting machine that makes and sets separate characters.

Dictionary definition

MONOTYPE, noun. (biology) a taxonomic group with a single member (a single species or genus).
MONOTYPE, noun. A typesetting machine operated from a keyboard that sets separate characters.

Wise words

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates