Monotype
a machine for type setting and casting, used principally in large newspaper offices. The work is first done by a kind of typewriter, on a roll of paper which, instead of receiving the impression of letters, is assailed by a series of punches which drive neat little holes through it. The roll of paper steadily revolves and then winds itself on another spool. When this is full it is fastened in another small machine, a lever is pressed and almost instantly a glistening type appears and is followed by others, till a line of type is formed.
A metal arm picks up this line and places it in the galley, and when the latter is filled it is ready for the printer. Each type is made on the spot. The machine produces automatically a perfect justification, or spacing, and one operator can attend to 10 machines, each doing the work of three compositors.
MONREALE (mon-rā-ä'le), a city of Sicily, 5 miles S. W. of Palermo. The "royal mount," from which it gets its name, is 1,231 feet high, and on it stands the famous cruciform Norman cathedral (1176), which measures 333 by 132 feet, and within is entirely covered with mosaics. Pop. about 20,000.