Electrotype Definition

ĭ-lĕktrə-tīp
electrotyped, electrotyping
noun
A plate made by electroplating a wax or plastic impression of the original page of type, etc.
Webster's New World
A print made from such a plate.
Webster's New World
The process of making an electrotype.
American Heritage
verb
To make an electrotype of.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Electrotype

Noun

Singular:
electrotype
Plural:
electrotypes

Origin of Electrotype

  • electro- +‎ type

    From Wiktionary

Electrotype Sentence Examples

  • Rotary machines, printing from an endless web of paper from curved stereotype or electrotype plates, principally used XXII.

  • Single proofs of type, stereotype, electrotype or blocks of any description can often be struck off without making-ready with fairly good results, but if precision of " colour " (that is, inking) and uniformity of impression throughout a volume are desired, it is necessary to put the forme, whether type or blocks or both, into a proper condition before starting the printing of an edition, whatever its number.

  • Towards the end of his arts course he became a contributor to the Westminster Review (first article "Electrotype and Daguerreotype," September 1840).

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