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moveable type

Syllables: move·a·ble type

moveable type is the alternative spelling of movable type.

Meaning of movable type

Noun

movable type (countable and uncountable, plural movable types)

  1. A system of printing and typography that uses movable components such as individual letters or punctuation to reproduce the elements of a document.

Forms of moveable type

pluralmoveable types

Questions about moveable type

What is moveable type the alternative spelling of?
Moveable type is the alternative spelling of movable type.

Words near moveable type in the dictionary

  1. moveable
  2. moveable alphabet
  3. moveable alphabets
  4. moveable feast
  5. moveable feasts
  6. moveable type
  7. moveable types
  8. moveableness
  9. moveables
  10. moveably
  11. moved

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Adapted from Wiktionary: moveable type (page history and authors); movable type (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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