3D printer

American  

[three-dee prin-ter] / ˈθriˈdi ˈprɪn tər /

Or 3-D printer

noun

Computers.

1. a device used to print three-dimensional objects by the process of 3D printing.

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Etymology

Origin of 3D printer

First recorded in 1990–95

Example Sentences

To restore them to their original shape, Prof Ni's team scanned the skulls and undistorted them using computer modelling techniques and then printed replicas on a 3D printer.

From BBC

There are also calls for 3D printer manufacturers to block the printing of gun parts, in the same way that conventional printers restrict the printing of currency.

From BBC

"But in the longer term we could put the lab-grown ingredients into a 3D printer and print off whatever you want on the space station, such as a steak!"

From BBC

The first 3D printer in Gaza was smuggled in as parts about 10 years ago, said Dr. Tarek Loubani, a Palestinian-Canadian emergency room physician in London, Ontario.

From Salon

In a 2018 interview, he asked Italian journalist Francesca Borri: “Have you seen how brilliant our youths are? Despite it all. How talented, how inventive, dynamic they are? With old fax machines, old computers, a group of twenty-somethings assembled a 3D printer: to produce the medical equipment that is barred from entry. That’s Gaza. We are not only destitution.”

From Salon