Definition of "electrotypes" []

• Plural form of electrotype. (noun)

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• "Gutta-percha impressions and electrotypes were finally created, the current lot being one of the rare original electrotypes."
• "For this sixty-first thousand, fresh electrotypes have been taken from the wood-blocks (which, never having been used for printing from, are in as good condition as when first cut in 1871), and the whole book has been set up afresh with new type."
• "In the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford excellent facsimile electrotypes of early Greek weapons are exhibited; and these have far more value in bringing the Past before us than the actual weapons of that period, corroded and broken, would have."