reperforator

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noun

A device for punching a duplicate perforated paper tape of incoming messages for later retransmission.

OriginEnglish perforator ← Middle English re- ← Old French re- →
Scrabble 17
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Meanings

nounreperforator (plural reperforators)

plural reperforators

  1. communicationsA device for punching a duplicate perforated paper tape of incoming messages for later retransmission.

    The reperforator punches the routing indicator, along with the message body, into a tape

    1960, Ehrhard A. Rossberg with Helmut E. Korta, Teleprinter Switching, page 217
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    If an error is indicated the reperforator deletes the errored line from the tape and signals the transmitter to repeat the line of data.

    1958, Electronic Industries Association Engineering Dept., Proceedings of the EIA Conference on Automation Systems for Business and Industry, page 88

    Creed's, earlier a world leader in teletype and reperforator equipment, could not or would not manage the transition to manufacture the tape punches

    2005, John Robert Ferris, Intelligence and Strategy: Selected Essays, page 176

Origin

  1. Proto-Italic*wre-
  2. Latinre-
  3. Old Frenchre-
  4. Middle Englishre-
  5. Englishre-
  6. Englishperforator
  7. Englishreperforator

From re- + perforator.

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Chicago

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