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单词 polymatype
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polymatypen.

Brit. /ˈpɒlᵻmətʌɪp/, U.S. /ˈpɑləməˌtaɪp/
Forms: also with capital initial.
Origin: Apparently a borrowing from French. Etymon: French Polymatype.
Etymology: Apparently < French Polymatype the name of a machine for casting multiple types (not dated in dictionaries of French) < poly poly- comb. form + ma- (perhaps in either matrice matrix n. or machine machine n.) + type type n.The machine was invented by Henri Didot (1765–1852) and patented in England by Louis John Pouché in 1823. The word is not found in the latter's patent.
Printing. Now historical and rare.
A system of typecasting by which a large number of types can be produced simultaneously; a machine used for this. Also attributive in polymatype mould.
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polymatype1887
1887 T. B. Reed Hist. Old Eng. Letter Foundries xxi. 361 In 1823, he [sc. L. J. Pouchée] took out the patent for this country for Henri Didot's system of polymatype which consisted of a machine capable of casting from 150 to 200 types at each operation.
1890 Cent. Dict. Polymatype, a now disused system of type-making by which 150 or 200 types were cast at one operation twice a minute.
1896 T. L. De Vinne in Moxon's Mech. Exerc.: Printing (new ed.) II. 416 Didot's polymatype mould, made to cast fifty types at one operation.
1966 W. T. Berry & H. E. Poole Ann. Printing 213/1 Type casting with a device known as the Polymatype was invented by Henri Didot.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia IV. 82/1 For producing type he invented the Polymatype, which consisted of a long bar of matrices into which hot metal was poured.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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