a keyboard machine resembling a typewriter, used in a system of phonetic shorthand.
the symbols typed in one stroke on this machine.
a machine with a keyboard for recording speeches, etc, in a phonetic shorthand
any machine resembling this
the phonetic symbol typed in one stroke of such a machine
Formerly a trademark
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To bad his stenotype machine wasn’t connected to the Internet.
From Time • Apr. 3, 2014
“Stroking” is the act of pressing either individual keys or combinations of keys on a stenotype in order to record sounds, words, or even phrases.
From Slate • Dec. 7, 2012
As with the stenotype, some letters are on the keyboard, but others must be produced by hitting two keys at the same time.
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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