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Intertype

Term · Industrial and trades · MLC-T-IND-003065

A brand of hot metal typesetting machine, similar to the Linotype, that casts lines of type from molten lead. It was widely used in newspaper and book production during the 20th century. The machine assembled matrices for an entire line of text before casting it as a single slug.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-IND-003065
FieldIndustrial and trades
SubjectIndustrial printing
TranslationsGerman: Intertype; Spanish: Intertype; French: Intertype
Record as JSON 
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  "id": "MLC-T-IND-003065",
  "term": "Intertype",
  "field": "Industrial and trades",
  "definition": "A brand of hot metal typesetting machine, similar to the Linotype, that casts lines of type from molten lead. It was widely used in newspaper and book production during the 20th century. The machine assembled matrices for an entire line of text before casting it as a single slug.",
  "subject": "Industrial printing",
  "translations": {
    "de": "Intertype",
    "es": "Intertype",
    "fr": "Intertype"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/industrial/intertype/"
}

Record 3,374 of 7,361 in Industrial and trades terminology (MLC-0113). Request the full dataset.