monotype

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noun (1)

mono·​type ˈmä-nə-ˌtīp 

: an impression on paper of a design painted usually with the finger or a brush on a surface (such as glass)

Monotype

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noun (2)

: a typesetting apparatus consisting of a keyboard whose operation produces perforations on a roll of paper and a caster which casts and assembles individual pieces of type in justified lines in the order determined by the perforations

—formerly a U.S. registered trademark

Examples of monotype in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

The art gallery David Zwirner recently made a selection of Levinthal’s monotypes available to view online. — Leanne Shapton, The New York Review of Books, 18 Mar. 2026

Sometimes this leads to more experimental installations, like Patrick Marold building a circular forest of 40-foot-tall pines in the main gallery, or Sue Oehme stringing up hundreds of rainbow monotypes in the foyer. — Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post, 9 Mar. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

Noun (1)

1882, in the meaning defined above

Noun (2)

1893, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for monotype

• allotype
• antitype
• archetype
• biotype
• collotype
• genotype
• haplotype
• holotype
• hypotype
• isotype
• lectotype
• linotype