typescript

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a typewritten manuscript or other text prepared in typewritten form, especially as a copy for printing

   The editor compared the author's corrected typescript with the published novel.

Formed in late nineteenth-century English from type + a shortening of manuscript. It originally and chiefly denotes a manuscript made with a typewriter, especially one prepared for a printer. This ordinary noun predates and is distinct from the later programming-language name TypeScript.

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