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monotype

1

[ mon-uh-tahyp ]

noun

  1. the only print made from a metal or glass plate on which a picture is painted in oil color, printing ink, or the like.
  2. the method of producing such a print.
  3. Biology. the only type of its group, as a single species constituting a genus.


Monotype

2

[ mon-uh-tahyp ]

Printing, Trademark.
  1. a brand of machine for setting and casting type, consisting of a separate keyboard for producing a paper tape containing holes in a coded pattern so that when this tape is fed into the casting unit each code evokes a unique letter cast from hot metal by a special matrix.

Monotype

1

/ ˈmɒnəˌtaɪp /

noun

  1. any of various typesetting systems, esp originally one in which each character was cast individually from hot metal
  2. type produced by such a system
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


monotype

2

/ ˈmɒnəˌtaɪp /

noun

  1. a single print made from a metal or glass plate on which a picture has been painted
  2. biology a monotypic genus or species
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of monotype1

First recorded in 1880–85; mono- + -type
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Example Sentences

The next year, Celia consulted the psychic, who, knowing none of the back story, described “beautiful papers with abstract designs” — which Celia took as a reference to her father’s monotypes — and his lung cancer.

That explains her affinity for monotypes, which are often made by applying pigment to a matrix that is then printed to yield a single, painterly impression.

The show’s centerpiece is “Filter,” made of about 2,000 tiny cutout monotypes in dozens of shapes; they swoop in nine undulating schools across two white walls.

Lining a Whitney gallery is the great 1982 series of monotypes based on the artist’s 1960 bronze sculpture of a Savarin can.

The result is not particularly “painterly” — it evokes instead the unique, inky contingency of monotypes.

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