Meaning

To typeset by exposing type characters onto photographic film, which is then used to generate printing plates..

Definitions by Sense

1. To typeset by exposing type characters onto photographic film, which is then used to generate printing plates.
2. Created using a process of filmsetting.
3. Alternative form of film set.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

But Private Angelo is considered to be Britain's first filmset commercially distributed book.

To some extent the actual thickness of the filmset letters can be controlled to suit differing paper surfaces.

Blood is one of the easiest things to arrange on a filmset.

Some of Peters's filmset designs, together with those for the store and for an ideal art centre, were put on display at Bullock's Wilshire not long after the store's opening.

True enough, Spain has become a filmset to me, the whole of it barely more real than Fort Bravo itself.

Word Forms

• filmsets
• filmsetting
• filmset

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When Should You Use Filmset?

Use filmset when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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