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Printing vs Aristotype - What's the difference?

printing | aristotype |

As nouns the difference between printing and aristotype

is that printing is (uncountable) the process or business of producing printed material by means of inked type and a printing press or similar technology while aristotype is a high-symmetry crystallographic structure type that can be viewed as an idealized version of a lower-symmetry structure.

As a verb printing

is .

printing

Noun

  • (uncountable) The process or business of producing printed material by means of inked type and a printing press or similar technology.
  • (uncountable) Material that has been printed.
  • (countable) All the copies of a publication that have been printed in one batch.
  • (uncountable) Written characters that are not joined up.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • aristotype

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A high-symmetry crystallographic structure type that can be viewed as an idealized version of a lower-symmetry structure
  • (obsolete) A printing process using paper coated with silver chloride in gelatin