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

plural of type site

plural of type-site

Alternative form of type site

(archaeology) An archaeological site considered the representative example of a particular culture, frequently its first discovery and frequently used as its eponym

(printing, historical) Type having the face of a larger or smaller size than the body.

(programming) The circumvention of the system of data types in a programming language in order to achieve an effect that would be difficult or impossible to achieve within the bounds of the formal language.

plural of type coercion

plural of type conversion

(software) changing an entity from one datatype to another according to explicit or implicit rules.