Usually means: Printing system using interchangeable characters.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. movable type: Merriam-Webster
  2. movable type: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. movable type: Wiktionary
  4. movable type: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. movable type: Dictionary.com
  6. Movable Type, Movable type: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. movable type: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. movable type: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (movable type)

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

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