movable type

(noun)

Movable type is the system of printing and typography that uses movable components to reproduce the elements of a document (usually individual letters or punctuation).

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Examples of movable type in the following topics:

  • Historical Records

    • Around the mid-15th century, block-books, woodcut books with both text and images usually carved in the same block, emerged as a cheaper alternative to manuscripts and books printed with movable type.
    • Johannes Gutenberg of the German city of Mainz developed European movable type printing technology around 1439.
    • Compared to woodblock printing, movable type page-setting was quicker and more durable.
    • Today, practically all movable type printing ultimately derives from Gutenberg's movable type printing, which is often regarded as the most important invention of the second millennium.
    • Defend why movable type was influential in the printing of historical texts during the Romanesque period.
  • Synovial Joint Movements

    • A synovial joint, also known as a diarthrosis, is the most common and most movable type of joint in the body of a mammal.
    • There are six types of synovial joints.
    • The six types of joints include:
  • Technological Advancements Under the Song

    • The application of movable type printing advanced the already widespread use of woodblock printing to educate and amuse Confucian students and the masses.
    • In turn, the invading Mongols employed northern Chinese soldiers and used these same types of gunpowder weapons against the Song.
    • The innovation of movable type printing was made by the artisan Bi Sheng (990–1051), first described by the scientist and statesman Shen Kuo in his Dream Pool Essays of 1088.
    • Movable type enhanced the already widespread use of woodblock methods of printing thousands of documents and volumes of written literature, consumed eagerly by an increasingly literate public.
    • Trebuchets like this were used to launch the earliest type of explosive bombs.
  • The Printing Revolution

    • His newly devised hand mould made for the first time possible the precise and rapid creation of metal movable type in large quantities, a key element in the profitability of the whole printing enterprise.
    • However, it was not until a 1439 lawsuit against Gutenberg that an official record exists; witnesses' testimony discussed Gutenberg's types, an inventory of metals (including lead), and his type molds.
    • He was the first to make type from an alloy of lead, tin, and antimony, which was critical for producing durable type that produced high-quality printed books and proved to be much better suited for printing than all other known materials.
    • To create these lead types, Gutenberg used what is considered one of his most ingenious inventions, a special matrix enabling the quick and precise molding of new type blocks from a uniform template.
    • In the background, compositors are setting type.
  • Structure of Synovial Joints

    • A synovial joint, also known as a diarthrosis, is the most common and most movable type of joint in a mammal's body.
    • Diarthroses are freely movable articulations.
    • *The outer layer, or subintima-can be of almost any type: fibrous, fatty, or loosely areolar.
    • The intimal cells are termed synoviocytes and are of two types: fibroblastic (type B synoviocytes) and macrophagic (type A synoviocytes), both of which are different in certain respects from similar cells in other tissues.
    • The type B synoviocytes manufacture a long-chain sugar polymer called hyaluronan, which makes the synovial fluid stringy (like egg-white) together with a molecule called lubricin, which lubricates the joint surfaces.
  • Structural Classification of Joints

    • The type and characteristics of a given joint determines the degree and type of movement.
    • These types of joints are fixed or immovable joints.
    • There are three types of fibrous joints.
    • This is the most common and movable joint type in the body.
    • Image demonstrating the three types of fibrous joints.
  • Functional Classification of Joints

    • Functional classification of joints is based on the type and degree of movement permited.
    • Functional classification is based on the type and degree of movement permited.
    • Synarthrosis- These types of joints are immobile or allow limited mobility.
    • Diarthrosis – These are the freely movable synovial joints.
    • Synovial joints are further classified based on the different types of movement they provide.
  • Cartilaginous Joints: Symphyses

    • A symphysis is a secondary cartilaginous joint that is slightly movable and permanent.
    • It is a type of cartilaginous joint, specifically a secondary cartilaginous joint.
    • A symphysis is an amphiarthrosis, which is a slightly movable joint.
    • Differentiate among the types of symphyses (fibrocartilaginous fusions) between two bones
  • Syndesmoses

    • Syndesmoses are slightly movable joints formed where an interosseous ligament joins two bones.
    • A syndesmosis is a type of articulation, or joint, in which two adjacent bones are joined by an interosseous membrane.
    • The interosseous membrane is a type of connective tissue found between certain bones such as those in syndesmosis joints.
  • The Spectrometer

    • This type of instrument is used in spectroscopy.
    • Every type of atom has its own frequency.
    • They use a diffraction grating, movable slit, and a photodetector.
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