reperforator

American

[ree-pur-fuh-rey-ter] / riˈpɜr fəˌreɪ tər /

noun

(especially in teletype transmission) a machine for punching a duplicate perforated paper tape of incoming messages so that they may later be retransmitted: used for automatic typesetting.

Etymology

Origin of reperforator

1915–20; re- + perforator ( def. )

Example Sentences

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The perforations set up electric impulses in a transmitter that go out by wire to a reperforator machine in the newspaper office.

From Time Magazine Archive

The reperforator duplicates the tape while printing the words on a monitoring machine so that editors can read the "taped" story.

From Time Magazine Archive

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