typesetting machine
noun
Definition of typesetting machine
: any of various keyboard machines for automatically composing printing type either by assembling and sometimes distributing ordinary foundry type or a modification of it or more often by producing keyboarded matter through forcing hot metal into matrices
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Origin and Etymology of typesetting machine
from gerund of typeset
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