homeset

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home +‎ set

homeset (plural homesets)

1. (printing) The type used as a standard by a specific publisher.
   • 1919, New York State College of Agriculture, The Service Sheet - Volumes 1-8, page 11:

     This carries b'ack face eight point heads in caps and lower case: since most papers today use this same style head for homeset short stories, the match is perfect.

   • 1920, Cornell Extension Bulletin - Issues 41-70, page 29:

     If you use much plate matter, make your choice of homeset heads to match those on the plate matter.

   • 2002, Charles Johanningsmeier, Fiction and the American Literary Marketplace, →ISBN, page 42:

     In the local newspaper office, the printer sprinkled the sheets with water to moisten them for the new impressions and with homeset type printed the rest of the paper.

2. (telecommunications) The equipment (satellite) for receiving signals from a direct broadcast satellite service.
   • 1983, Mary Louise Hollowell, The cable/broadband communications books: 1982-1983, →ISBN:

     The larger homeset dish (perhaps as large as two meters) would be much more difficult to mount than the .6-meter BSS-band dish used by STC and other operators.

   • 1993, Hsiao-Yun Hu, The development of cable television and satellite, page 68:

     DBS is the system of broadcasting television signals in the 12.2-12.7 GHz band from a very high power satellite in geostationary orbit (GSO) directly to a "homeset."

3. A device, such as a radio or television, which consumers use for home entertainment.
   • 1959, Journal of the Television Society - Volume 9, page 15:

     It is simple and economic to manufacture, and its performance has proven adequate for homeset operation.

   • 1987, Jeffrey A. Carver, Clypsis, →ISBN, page 11:

     Clypsis was a fantasy; you didn't actually expect to go there. You just watched on the homeset and dreamed.

   • 1988, Thomas Wylde, Pitfall, →ISBN, page 64:

     Oh, you lucky homeset viewer, you're going to have a treat today.