teleprinter
Americannoun
noun
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US name: teletypewriter. a telegraph apparatus consisting of a keyboard transmitter, which converts a typed message into coded pulses for transmission along a wire or cable, and a printing receiver, which converts incoming signals and prints out the message See also telex radioteletype
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a network of such devices, formerly used for communicating information, etc
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a similar device used for direct input/output of data into a computer at a distant location
Etymology
Origin of teleprinter
First recorded in 1925–30; Tele(type) + printer
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That day they were on shift as teleprinter operators in the operations room.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2022
At 18, she joined the Women’s Royal Naval Service, popularly known as the Wrens; for a time, she operated the teleprinter in an English country mansion from which the Normandy landings were being planned.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021
He had programmed a teleprinter, sitting on the floor next to me, to deliver love letters at one, three, and five.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 14, 2017
This project took the form of a parlor game: A and B, a man and a woman, communicate with an “interrogator,” C, by some intermediary such as a messenger or a teleprinter.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 19, 2013
A full-fledged bureau was set up in Panjim, connected to the editorial offices in Davorlim by teleprinter link.
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