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filmset

filmset verb: to typeset by exposing type characters onto photographic film, which is then used to generate printing plates. Also the alternative form of film set.

Verb

filmset (third-person singular simple present filmsets, present participle filmsetting, simple past and past participle filmset)

  1. To typeset by exposing type characters onto photographic film, which is then used to generate printing plates.
    • These concordances have been filmset, a process by which material is composed on film guided by appropriate programs that sense in the input stream "escape codes" which indicate a change in type font, size, or special characters.1975, ADVANCES IN COMPUTERS - Volume 13, →ISBN, page 56
    • The electronic capabilities of today's new typesetting programs enable us to filmset type with optimum lines - comparable with the setting of Johannes Gutenberg's famous 42-line Bible.2012, Peter Karow, Font Technology: Methods and Tools, →ISBN, page 194

Adjective

filmset (not comparable)

  1. Created using a process of filmsetting.
    • But Private Angelo is considered to be Britain's first filmset commercially distributed book.1958, Books of the Month - Volume 73, page 3
    • To some extent the actual thickness of the filmset letters can be controlled to suit differing paper surfaces.2007, John Lewis, Typography: Design and Practice, →ISBN, page 107

Also used as

filmset is also the alternative form of film set.

Forms of filmset

Verb
third-person singular presentfilmsets
present participlefilmsetting
past participlefilmset
pastfilmset
Noun
pluralfilmsets

Origin of filmset

From film + set.

Questions about filmset

What does filmset mean?
Filmset means to typeset by exposing type characters onto photographic film, which is then used to generate printing plates.
What part of speech is filmset?
Filmset can be a verb or an adjective.
What is the past tense of filmset?
The past tense of filmset is filmset.

Words near filmset in the dictionary

  1. films blancs
  2. films noirs
  3. films out
  4. filmscript
  5. filmscripts
  6. filmset
  7. filmsets
  8. filmsetter
  9. filmsetters
  10. filmsetting
  11. filmsettings

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