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Definition of Electrotype
1. n. A facsimile plate made by electrotypy for use in printing; also, an impression or print from such plate. Also used adjectively.
2. v. t. To make facsimile plates of by the electrotype process; as, to electrotype a page of type, a book, etc. See Electrotype,
Definition of Electrotype
1. Noun. a plate, made by electroplating a mold, such as used in letterpress printing ¹
2. Verb. to make such a plate ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Electrotype
1. [v -TYPED, -TYPING, -TYPES]
Medical Definition of Electrotype
1. A facsimile plate made by electrotypy for use in printing; also, an impression or print from such plate. Also used adjectively. The face of an electrotype consists of a shell of copper, silver, or the like, produced by the action of an electrical current upon a plate of metal and a wax mold suspended in an acid bath and connected with opposite poles of the battery. It is backed up with a solid filling of type metal. Origin: Electro- + -type. To make facsimile plates of by the electrotype process; as to electrotype a page of type, a book, etc. See Electrotype. Origin: Electrotyped; Electrotyping. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Electrotype
Literary usage of Electrotype
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Scrap Metals: Study of Iron and Steel Old Material, Its Preparation and Markets by George Henry Manlove, Charles Vickers (1918)
"This material, which comprises electrotype, linotype and stereotype shells, ...
The electrotype is sold to the scrap metal dealer, who burns off the wood ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1858)
"On Three New electrotype Processes. ... the principle of which was to leave nn
opening in the back of the thin electrotype obtained by precipitating, ..."
3. Pharmaceutical Journal by Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1844)
"ACTION OF WEAK ACIDS ON COPPER VESSELS PLATED BY THE electrotype PROCESS. MR.
... &c., silvered by the electrotype process, are acted upon by weak acids, ..."
4. Elements of Electro-metallurgy by Alfred Smee (1852)
"THE application of the electrotype to the various departments of engraving ...
To obviate these faults we make an electrotype plate on one of the prepared ..."
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