monoline
English
Etymology
From mono- + line.
Noun
monoline (plural monolines)
- (business) A company operating in only one industry or line of business; often specifically a bank specializing in credit card issuance.
- 2005, David Sparks Evans and Richard Schmalensee, Paying with Plastic, →ISBN, page 216:
- The other leading monolines in 2002 were Capital One and Providian.
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- (finance) An insurer specialized in insuring investment-grade securities against loss.
- 2005, Charles Austin Stone and Anne Zissu, The Securitization Markets Handbook, →ISBN, page 283:
- The premium charged by the monoline is not for funding expected losses, as with insurance, but for enhancing an investment-grade security to a AAA level.
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- (calligraphy) A font line of consistent width, as occurs when imitating pencil script.
- 1984, Margaret Shepherd, Calligraphy Now, page 31:
- […] monolines appear everywhere in the art of the Western letter, and have shaped the alphabet's development as much as the edged line of the broad pen.
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- (aquaculture) A length of monofilament line, used for culturing forms of seaweed.
- 1982, Jose Rodolfo Lim, Farming the Ocean (the Genu Story), page 73:
- A module consists of 21 monolines; a monoline on the other hand is 20 feet (6 m) long and consists of a nylon line plus 3 stakes— 2 at both ends and one at the middle— and 30 plants.
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- (printing, dated) A type of composing machine in which each line of type is cast as a single slug.
- 1993, Rae Frances, The Politics of Work: Gender and Labour in Victoria 1880-1939, →ISBN, page 126:
- With the straight matter being set on the linotype or monoline, the hand compositor was left with what he claimed was the most 'skilled' part of his old work.
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- (spectroscopy) A single spectrum line.
- 2007, V.A. Shabashov et al., “Deformation-induced transformations in nitride layers formed in bcc iron”, in Materials Science and Engineering: A, volume 452, DOI: , pages 575-583:
- The spectrum of the MS sample also includes the central broad singlet of the nitrous austenite, which is simulated as the superposition of a monoline and a doublet.
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Related terms
- monorail
- monotype
- multiline