Meaning

1 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A system of printing and typography that uses movable components such as individual letters or punctuation to reproduce the elements of a document.

    bewegliche Lettern

    ручно́й набо́рručnój nabór

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Movable type was invented in 11th-century China.

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Translations

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system of printing and typography:
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system of printing and typography:

Forms

plural: movable types

Word family

1 related words

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