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What does movable type mean?

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  1. 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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The other great event of that same century was the invention of printing with movable type.
A prominent merchant from Kent, Caxton established the first successful press in an England slow to adopt metallographic printing with movable type.
Then Johannes Gutenberg develops the first movable type press, producing up to 3,600 pages per day.
The Chinese invented movable type in the 11th century ad but did not fully exploit it.
A subroutine is a part of a program that can be re-used, just like movable type.
Coster is said to have printed with movable type as early as 1430, but definite proof of this claim is lacking.

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