monotype

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.
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

a print of some design created on metal or glass

• French: monotype (fr) m
• Italian: monotipo m
• Polish: monotypia f

a technique of making a monotype

• Polish: monotypia f

a monotypic taxon

• Polish: monotyp (pl) m

a typesetting machine

• French: monotype (fr) f
• German: Monotype f
• Polish: monotyp (pl) m

a sailboat for a single person

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

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

• “monotype”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English monotype.

Noun

monotype f (invariable)

1. monotype