filmsetting

filmsetting is the present participle and gerund of filmset.

Meaning of filmset

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

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

filmsetting (usually uncountable, plural filmsettings)

(usually) Photocomposition of type.
- There is too, at this point in time, an aesthetic disadvantage to filmsetting in that the range of type faces specially designed for it is still extremely limited.1968, Dorothy A. Harrop, Modern book production, page 59
- However, filmsettings are sometimes made deliberately over size, with the intention that they shall be photographically reduced - some of the machines cannot cope with type sizes smaller than about eight or ten point.1979, E. L. Dellow, A First Course in Proof Correcting, page 110

plural	filmsettings

What does filmsetting mean?: Filmsetting means photocomposition of type.
What is filmsetting the present participle and gerund of?: Filmsetting is the present participle and gerund of filmset.
What part of speech is filmsetting?: Filmsetting is a noun.
What is the plural of filmsetting?: The plural of filmsetting is filmsettings.

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