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- noun A form of
typesetting machine in which a completeline of characters are set at once
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Examples
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The linotype is the favorite composing machine for newspapers and is also widely used in typesetting for books, though the monotype is preferred by book printers.
The Age of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest Holland Thompson 1906
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This machine is called a linotype because it casts a whole line of type at a time.
Makers of Many Things Eva March Tappan 1892
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I personally think the old linotype machine at the Post's entrance is dinosaur enough.
The Year of the T. Rex? Howard Schneider 2011
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Mae Ryan Working the linotype machine late at night at Brooklyn's Woodside Press.
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The author is hardly a sideline observer, having labored as a reporter and editor at the Rocky Mountain News, Daily Camera, Detroit Free Press and elsewhere since the days of the linotype machine.
Bob Wells: Why We Cancelled All the Newspapers Bob Wells 2011
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Mae Ryan Working the linotype machine late at night at Brooklyn's Woodside Press.
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The author is hardly a sideline observer, having labored as a reporter and editor at the Rocky Mountain News, Daily Camera, Detroit Free Press and elsewhere since the days of the linotype machine.
Bob Wells: Why We Cancelled All the Newspapers Bob Wells 2011
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Mae Ryan Working the linotype machine late at night at Brooklyn's Woodside Press.
The City Sleeps 2011
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The author is hardly a sideline observer, having labored as a reporter and editor at the Rocky Mountain News, Daily Camera, Detroit Free Press and elsewhere since the days of the linotype machine.
Bob Wells: Why We Cancelled All the Newspapers Bob Wells 2011
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If enough users switch to mobile smart phone or tablet devices, and cloud computing emerges as the way to connect to data as well as to applications, PCs and local servers may disappear the way linotype machines did when computerized printing came in.
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