Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to typography, or the use or manipulation of types for printing: as, typographical errors.
- Emblematic; figurative; typical.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Pertaining to
typography orprinting . - adjective Produced by typography;
printed .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or occurring or used in typography
Etymologies
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Examples
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Her manuscripts seldom contain typographical errors when she hands them to Miss Sullivan to read.
The Story of My Life Annie Sullivan 1905
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The story of how Helvetica became the preeminent typeface of our times has inspired a documentary film, while loathing of Comic Sans has prompted what can only be called a typographical jihad.
Comic Sans, Papyrus: Ugly Fonts Help Us Read salon.com 2011
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Beyond giving writers a spur to eloquence, what the historian Elizabeth Eisenstein calls "typographical fixity" served as a cultural preservative.
Books That Are Never Done Being Written Nicholas Carr 2011
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The story of how Helvetica became the preeminent typeface of our times has inspired a documentary film, while loathing of Comic Sans has prompted what can only be called a typographical jihad.
Comic Sans, Papyrus: Ugly Fonts Help Us Read salon.com 2011
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The following have been identified as typographical errors and have been emended.
Baby Nightcaps Aunt Fanny 1858
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Until relatively recently, and as far as I know, the only widely used way of embedding some kind of typographical design into your web page (apart from using graphics) has been to use CSS (still dependent on the fonts everyone has installed) or (holds up crucifix) Flash.
Typekit – the holy grail of web publishing « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2010
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This is beyond the ordinary types of corrections allowed by courts . . . there is no evidence to support Rembrandt's assertion that a 'typographical' error occurred.
Archive 2009-08-01 Peter Zura 2009
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This is beyond the ordinary types of corrections allowed by courts . . . there is no evidence to support Rembrandt's assertion that a 'typographical' error occurred.
One Method Feature in Apparatus Claim Destroys Validity Peter Zura 2009
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In March we asked for “a word to describe a kind of typographical error: hitting a function key by mistake while typing on a computer,” thereby causing the computer to “start taking insane actions.”
Word Fugitives 2006
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In March we asked for “a word to describe a kind of typographical error: hitting a function key by mistake while typing on a computer,” thereby causing the computer to “start taking insane actions.”
Word Fugitives 2006
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