Teletypesetter

[ tel-i-tahyp-set-er, tel-i-tahyp- ]

Trademark.

1. a brand name for an apparatus, actuated by punched paper tape, that fits over the keyboard of a slugcasting machine, as the Linotype, for operating it automatically. : TTS

Teletypesetter

/ ˌtɛlɪˈtaɪpˌsɛtə; ˈtɛlɪˌtaɪp- /

noun

1. printing a keyboard device whose output can either be punched tape, which can be used directly to operate a line-casting machine, or be transmitted by cable or wire to operate such a machine indirectly

Derived Forms

• ˌteleˈtypeˌsetting, noun

Other Words From

• tele·typesetting noun