daisy wheel

American

noun

a small metal or plastic wheel with raised, fully formed letter, numbers, and symbols on the tips of petallike spokes: used as the printing element in a type of electronic typewriter or computer printer daisy wheel printer.

Etymology

Origin of daisy wheel

First recorded in 1975–80

Example Sentences

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Presented on three sets on a rotating daisy wheel, it features Mr. Fujiwara as himself meditating in a variety of ways on his own coming of age in a seaside town in Cornwall, England.

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2011

David Lee, 44, of San Jose, invented a high-speed printing system, known as the daisy wheel, which is now widely used in office machines.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Xerox 800 is a machine that prints letters from a whirling disc printer called a "daisy wheel."

From Time Magazine Archive

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