noun
a printer that sets textual material in type
• Hypernyms: ↑printer, ↑printing machine
• Hyponyms: ↑Linotype, ↑Linotype machine, ↑monotype
• Part Meronyms: ↑keyboard
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noun : any of various keyboard machines for automatically composing printing type either by assembling and sometimes distributing ordinary foundry type or a modification of it or more often by producing keyboarded matter through forcing hot metal into matrices
Useful english dictionary. 2012.