monotype

From mono- +‎ type or mono- +‎ -type. The printing technique is so called because it allows only one impression to be taken.

monotype (countable and uncountable, plural monotypes)

1. (art, printing) A print made by creating the design using oil paint or printer's ink on metal or glass, then transferring the image directly to paper.[1]
2. (art, printing, uncountable) The technique of making such prints.
3. (biology) A monotypic taxon.
4. A keyboard-operated typesetting and casting machine that makes and sets separate characters.
5. (sailing) A sailboat designed to be crewed or raced by a single person.
6. (computing theory) In the Hindley–Milner type system, a single specific data type.

   Coordinate term: polytype

monotype (third-person singular simple present monotypes, present participle monotyping, simple past and past participle monotyped)

1. (transitive) To produce a monotype of.

   to monotype an engraving

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monotype m (plural monotypes)

1. monotype (not machine)

monotype f (plural monotypes)

1. monotype (machine)

• “monotype”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from English monotype.

monotype f (invariable)

1. monotype