monotype

Meanings

Noun

• 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.
• The technique of making such prints.
• A monotypic taxon.
• A keyboard-operated typesetting and casting machine that makes and sets separate characters.
• A sailboat designed to be crewed or raced by a single person.
• In the Hindley–Milner type system, a single specific data type.

Verb

• To produce a monotype of.

Origin

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