stenotype

American  

[sten-uh-tahyp] / ˈstɛn əˌtaɪp /

noun

1. a keyboard machine resembling a typewriter, used in a system of phonetic shorthand.

2. the symbols typed in one stroke on this machine.

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Stenotype British  

/ ˈstɛnəˌtaɪp /

noun

1. a machine with a keyboard for recording speeches, etc, in a phonetic shorthand

2. any machine resembling this

3. the phonetic symbol typed in one stroke of such a machine

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Etymology

Origin of stenotype

Formerly a trademark

Example Sentences

But also braille books, his adaptive computer and his cobalt blue Light-Touch Perkins Brailler — a nine-key typewriter, not unlike a court reporter’s stenotype machine, that many experts consider essential for a blind child to access literacy.

From Los Angeles Times

She came, as all her readers have noticed, from the Ozarks, the daughter of a judge and a court reporter whose stenotype’s imprint adorns the interior pages of her 1998 mostly-prose poem “Deepstep Come Shining.”

From Los Angeles Times

Brought up in a large unaestheticized house littered with Congressional Records and stenotype paper by a Chancery Judge and The Court’s hazel-eyed Reporter who took down his every word which was law.

From The New Yorker

I use a stenotype, or shorthand machine, connected to a computer that contains captioning software.

From New York Times

To bad his stenotype machine wasn’t connected to the Internet.

From Time