monotype

noun

1. the only print made from a metal or glass plate on which a picture is painted in oil color, printing ink, or the like.
2. the method of producing such a print.
3. Biology. the only type of its group, as a single species constituting a genus.

Printing, Trademark.

1. a brand of machine for setting and casting type, consisting of a separate keyboard for producing a paper tape containing holes in a coded pattern so that when this tape is fed into the casting unit each code evokes a unique letter cast from hot metal by a special matrix.

noun

1. a single print made from a metal or glass plate on which a picture has been painted
2. biology a monotypic genus or species

noun

1. trademark any of various typesetting systems, esp originally one in which each character was cast individually from hot metal
2. type produced by such a system

n.1881 in biology; 1882 in printers’ arts; 1893 as a brand name of typesetting machine; see mono- + type.