TYPESETTING MACHINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does typesetting machine mean? 

• TYPESETTING MACHINE (noun)
  The noun TYPESETTING MACHINE has 1 sense:

1. a printer that sets textual material in type

  Familiarity information: TYPESETTING MACHINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TYPESETTING MACHINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A printer that sets textual material in type

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("typesetting machine" is a kind of...):

printer; printing machine (a machine that prints)

Meronyms (parts of "typesetting machine"):

keyboard (device consisting of a set of keys on a piano or organ or typewriter or typesetting machine or computer or the like)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "typesetting machine"):

Linotype; Linotype machine (a typesetting machine operated from a keyboard that casts an entire line as a single slug of metal)

monotype (a typesetting machine operated from a keyboard that sets separate characters)