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typesetting

Word definitions for typesetting in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Typesetting is the composition of text by means of arranging physical types or the digital equivalents. Stored letters and other symbols (called sorts in mechanical systems and glyphs in digital systems) are retrieved and ordered according to a language's ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context typography English) The setting or composition of written material into type. vb. (present participle of typeset English)

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A company called Southwark Offset, in London, did the typesetting . ▪ But, for the next step, we need to move to typesetting . ▪ Eventually the price of such devices will fall and PostScript recorders will become the norm - just ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Typesetting \Type"set`ting\, n. The act or art of setting type.

Usage examples of typesetting.

Every technological innovation was bitterly resisted by Luddite printers and publishers: stereotyping, the iron press, the application of steam power, mechanical typecasting and typesetting, new methods of reproducing illustrations, cloth bindings, machine-made paper, ready-bound books, paperbacks, book clubs, and book tokens.

And there was the Paige typesetting machine, into which he had sunk—.