monoline
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Etymology
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, Richard Schmalensee, Paying with Plastic, →ISBN, page 216:
- The other leading monolines in 2002 were Capital One and Providian.
- (finance) An insurer specialized in insuring investment-grade securities against loss.
- 2005, Charles Austin Stone, 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.
- (calligraphy) A font line of consistent width, as occurs when imitating pencil script.
- (aquaculture) A length of monofilament line, used for culturing forms of seaweed.
- (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.
- (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, , 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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