Full Definition of TYPESETTING. : the process of setting material in type or into a form to be used in printing; also: the process of producing graphic matter (as through a computer system).See typesetting defined for English-language learners. ADVERTISEMENT. the process of setting material in type or into a form to be used in printing; also: the process of producing graphic matter (as through a computer system). See typesetting defined for English-language learners. ADVERTISEMENT.
A drawing of a luxury hourglass corset from 1878, featuring a busk fastening at the front and lacing at the back. A corset is a garment worn to hold and train the torso into a desired shape for aesthetic or medical purposes (either for the duration of wearing it or with a more lasting effect). Both men and women are known to wear corsets, though this item was for many years an integral part of women's wardrobes.
or garote, garotte, garrotte. 1. a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain. 2. the collarlike instrument used for this method of execution.