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TYPESETTING MACHINE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A printer that sets textual material in type
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("typesetting machine" is a kind of...):
printer; printing machine (a machine that prints)
Meronyms (parts of "typesetting machine"):
keyboard (device consisting of a set of keys on a piano or organ or typewriter or typesetting machine or computer or the like)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "typesetting machine"):
Linotype; Linotype machine (a typesetting machine operated from a keyboard that casts an entire line as a single slug of metal)
monotype (a typesetting machine operated from a keyboard that sets separate characters)
