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Takeoff

Term · Industrial and trades · MLC-T-IND-005863

The removal of printed sheets from the press as they come off it, a historical British printers' term for taking the sheets away after impression. It contrasts with feeding, the other manual stage of working a press by hand, in which blank sheets are laid on for printing.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-IND-005863
FieldIndustrial and trades
SubjectIndustrial printing
Synonymsliftoff
See alsoLiftoff
TranslationsGerman: Takeoff; Spanish: retirada; French: retrait
Record as JSON
{
  "id": "MLC-T-IND-005863",
  "term": "Takeoff",
  "field": "Industrial and trades",
  "definition": "The removal of printed sheets from the press as they come off it, a historical British printers' term for taking the sheets away after impression. It contrasts with feeding, the other manual stage of working a press by hand, in which blank sheets are laid on for printing.",
  "synonyms": [
    "liftoff"
  ],
  "subject": "Industrial printing",
  "see_also": [
    "liftoff"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "de": "Takeoff",
    "es": "retirada",
    "fr": "retrait"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/industrial/takeoff/"
}

Record 6,369 of 7,311 in Industrial and trades terminology (MLC-0113). Request the full dataset.