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
Example Sentences
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He jumped on the truck when the company received word, via teleprinter, of a working fire on Southern Boulevard in the Bronx.
From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2020
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
"My colleague was scanning eBay and he saw a photograph of what seemed to be the teleprinter," said John Wetter, a volunteer at the museum.
From BBC ● May 29, 2016
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
What gets to the public is photoprint, out of a teleprinter.
From Four-Day Planet by Piper, H. Beam
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