| Title: | Perfecting |
| Original Title: | Retiration |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 14 (1765), p. 206 |
| Author: | Louis, chevalier de Jaucourt (biography) |
| Translator: | IML Donaldson [University of Edinburgh and Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh] |
| Subject terms: |
Printing
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| Citation (MLA): | Jaucourt, Louis, chevalier de. "Perfecting." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by IML Donaldson. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2010. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0001.290>. Trans. of "Retiration," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 14. Paris, 1765. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Jaucourt, Louis, chevalier de. "Perfecting." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by IML Donaldson. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0001.290 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Retiration," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 14:206 (Paris, 1765). |
Perfecting [1], a term in Printing . Printers speak of perfecting when they print the second side of a sheet, that is to say, the side on the back of that which has already been printed.
1. retiration . The word reiteration is also used in English with the same meaning as perfecting, and is also used as a noun ‘printing the reiteration’ but perfecting is now the commoner term. The process of perfecting is also called ‘printing the second forme’. See the article Printing for more details.