stenotype
Americannoun
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a keyboard machine resembling a typewriter, used in a system of phonetic shorthand.
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the symbols typed in one stroke on this machine.
noun
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a machine with a keyboard for recording speeches, etc, in a phonetic shorthand
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any machine resembling this
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the phonetic symbol typed in one stroke of such a machine
Etymology
Origin of stenotype
Formerly a trademark
Example Sentences
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To bad his stenotype machine wasn’t connected to the Internet.
From Time • Apr. 3, 2014
Similar to the stenotype is the veyboard, which was originally developed in the Netherlands as an alternative stenotype keyboard called the tachotype, in 1933.
From Slate • Dec. 7, 2012
A typist can go much faster on a veyboard than on a standard keyboard and still produce normal text output, unlike the stenotype.
From Slate • Dec. 7, 2012
In the past ten years, more than half the U.S.'s 28,000 court reporters have upgraded from the mechanical stenotype machine, basically unchanged since it was introduced in 1910, to one of several partly computerized systems.
From Time Magazine Archive
My personal secretary, it seemed, couldn't read stenotype.
From Lone Star Planet by Piper, H. Beam
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