Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art or process of making electrotypes. Also called
galvanoplastic process .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or the process of making electrotypes.
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- noun the act or process of making
electrotypes
Etymologies
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Examples
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Our scientific chief had discovered a process something like what is called electrotyping nowadays, as I imagine.
A Rogue's Life Wilkie Collins 1856
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THE SINGULAR EFFECTS produced on the unborn child by the sudden mental emotions of the mother are remarkable examples of a kind of electrotyping on the sensitive surfaces of living forms.
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The singular effects produced on the unborn child by the sudden mental emotions of the mother are remarkable examples of a kind of electrotyping on the sensitive surfaces of living forms.
Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics B. G. Jefferis
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The process of electrotyping the wood engravings for the illustrations, a precondition to the typesetting, had not begun.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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The process of electrotyping the wood engravings for the illustrations, a precondition to the typesetting, had not begun.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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As it admits of great speeds, it could be usefully employed direct, without the interposition of spur wheels or belts for driving magneto-electric machines employed for the production of light, for electrotyping, etc.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 Various
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These should in reality be no cause for worry, since by a later operation, that of "locking-up" the "form" in which the pages will be placed before they are sent to the electrotyping department, the types readily and correctly adjust themselves.
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It needs type-making and type-setting machines of great complexity, printing-presses of great size and cost, and much curious machinery in the departments of electrotyping and bookbinding; but these machines, intended to relieve the drudgery of monotonous manual labor, do not supplant the necessity for a higher skill in craftsmanship.
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The type of a particular page or article after it has been used on the press or for electrotyping is distributed letter by letter in the _cases_.
Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) Various
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We would call the attention of Authors and Publishers to our excellent facilities for Book Work (composition, electrotyping, and printing).
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