typesetting

See also: type-setting

English

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Noun

typesetting (countable and uncountable, plural typesettings)

2. (typography) The setting of written material into type.

   Synonym: composition

   Hyponyms: letterpress, hot metal typesetting, phototypesetting, digital typesetting

Derived terms

• hot metal typesetting
• phototypesetting
• teletypesetting

Related terms

• typeset
• typesetter

Translations

setting or composition — see also composition

• Arabic: تَنْضِيد (tanḍīd)
• Bulgarian: набор (bg) (nabor)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 排版 (zh) (páibǎn)

• Czech: sazba (cs) f
• Dutch: zetwerk (nl) n, letterzetten (nl) n
• Finnish: ladonta (fi)
• French: composition (fr) f
• German: Satz (de) m, Schriftsatz (de) m
• Greek: στοιχειοθεσία (el) f (stoicheiothesía)
• Hungarian: betűszedés (hu), szedés (hu), (page makeup, making up a page) tördelés (hu)
• Irish: clóchur m, clóchuradóireacht f, cló-eagar m
• Italian: composizione (it) f
• Japanese: 組版 (ja) (くみはん, kumihan)
• Russian: вёрстка (ru) m (vjórstka), типогра́фский набо́р m (tipográfskij nabór), набо́р (ru) m (nabór)
• Spanish: composición tipográfica f
• Turkish: dizgi (tr), tertip (tr)

Verb

typesetting

1. present participle and gerund of typeset

Further reading

• typesetting on Wikipedia.Wikipedia