Wiktionary
n. A system of printing and typography that uses movable components such as individual letters or punctuation to reproduce the elements of a document.
Wikipedia
Movable Type is a weblog publishing system developed by the company Six Apart. It was publicly announced on September 3, 2001; version 1.0 was publicly released on October 8, 2001. The current version is 6.0.4.
Movable Type is proprietary software. From June 2007 to July 2013, Six Apart ran the Movable Type Open Source Project, which offered a version of Movable Type under the GPL.
Usage examples of "movable type".
They generally didn't interfere with the cunning of the city, but when it came to movable type the pointy foot was put down hard.
But I'd always understood, sir, that Unseen University was against the use of movable type?
Why not ask the pompous, patronizing, good wizard for something useful, such as flush toilets, movable type, or electricity for every home in the kingdom?
The next great leap forward in knowledge--acquisition did not occur until the invention of movable type in the fifteenth century by Gutenberg and others.
It promises (or threatens) to produce effects on our culture, particularly on our literature, education, criticism and scholarship, just as radical as those produced by Gutenberg's movable type.
The printed word might look solid to you, but where I come from movable type has a much deeper meaning.
They generally didn't interfere with the running of the city, but when it came to movable type the pointy foot was put down hard.