teleprinter

American  

[tel-uh-prin-ter] / ˈtɛl əˌprɪn tər /

noun

1. a teletypewriter.

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teleprinter British  

/ ˈtɛlɪˌprɪntə /

noun

1. US name: teletypewriter.  a telegraph apparatus consisting of a keyboard transmitter, which converts a typed message into coded pulses for transmission along a wire or cable, and a printing receiver, which converts incoming signals and prints out the message See also telex radioteletype

2. a network of such devices, formerly used for communicating information, etc

3. a similar device used for direct input/output of data into a computer at a distant location

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Etymology

Origin of teleprinter

First recorded in 1925–30; Tele(type) + printer

Example Sentences

At 18, she joined the Women’s Royal Naval Service, popularly known as the Wrens; for a time, she operated the teleprinter in an English country mansion from which the Normandy landings were being planned.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021

He had programmed a teleprinter, sitting on the floor next to me, to deliver love letters at one, three, and five.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 14, 2017

This project took the form of a parlor game: A and B, a man and a woman, communicate with an “interrogator,” C, by some intermediary such as a messenger or a teleprinter.

From Scientific American • Jun. 19, 2013

The Tunny teleprinter communications network, a harbinger of today's mobile phone networks, spanned Europe and North Africa, connecting Hitler and the Army High Command in Berlin to the front-line generals.

From BBC • Jun. 19, 2012

Not having touched a teleprinter for a couple of years I said, �It�s no use, sarge, I�ll fail, it�s a waste of time.���

From Coming of Age: 1939-1946 by Cox, John