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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
electrotype .
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Examples
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She had called it shabby, electrotyped, second-hand, and below his income.
A Holiday Romance 2007
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She had called it shabby, electrotyped, second-hand, and below his income.
A Holiday Romance 2007
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It was as like a peeled walnut with bits unevenly broken off here and there, and then electrotyped all over, as ever I saw anything in my life.
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It is, therefore, not possible to copyright a book which has been put into type and electrotyped in England and sent here for the presswork and binding.
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If the book is electrotyped, the plates may turn out faulty; sometimes the type will sink in places under the enormous pressure applied in moulding.
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-- As we have electrotyped our MAGAZINE, we can supply any number of this issue.
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From a properly etched plate hundreds of thousands of prints may be obtained, or it may be electrotyped or stereotyped and multiplied indefinitely.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 Various
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As most book forms are electrotyped for flat-bed presses, and as it requires but little additional expense to curve the plates, this one item is not much of an obstacle to overcome.
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These blocks are made of wood or iron planed to an even thickness of about three-fourths of an inch, so that when an electrotype plate is placed upon one, it will take only a few thicknesses of thin paper between it and the electrotyped page to make the whole "type-high," that is, as high as an ordinary piece of type.
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If the pages are to be electrotyped or made into plates, they are
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