Flong
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /flɒŋ/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Flong is a noun meaning (printing) A mould, especially one made from papier-mâché, used to create a stereotype.
Meaning
(printing) A mould, especially one made from papier-mâché, used to create a stereotype.
More Meanings
- (obsolete) simple past of fling
Example Sentences
A few sheets of paper are soaked in water and then pasted together to form a flong. This flong is beaten into a page of type and dried, thus forming a matrix to receive the molten metal, which, when cooled, becomes an exact duplicate of the type page.
Because it was made from malleable material, a flong was a convenient intermediary for turning a flat page of type into the semi-cylindrical shape required by the huge newspaper presses of the twentieth century, whose printing surface was a spinning drum.
Word Forms
- flongs
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include stereotype, lithotypy, matrix, stereotypy, squeeze, stereoplate.
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