Meanings
plural teleprinters
- historicalSynonym of teletype, a telegraph that automatically prints transmitted messages in letters rather than Morse code or other symbols.
Particulars of trains are advised from Willesden Telegraph Office by teleprinter, supplemented as necessary by telephone from Euston Arrival Box.
1951 August, “Notes and News: New Train Arrival Bureau at Euston”, in Railway Magazine, page 5671 more example
No matter where they were billeted, the staff officers' reality was unchanging: a dozen telephone numbers, some signals corps pilots and motorcyclists, a signals officer, a teleprinter, a message despatch point, a radio and—laid out on the table—a map of the war, densely covered with blue and red pencil marks.
2019, Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert Chandler et al., Stalingrad, page 120Synonyms: teletype
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of teletype, a telegraph that automatically prints transmitted messages in letters rather than Morse code or other symbols.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna character printer connected to a telegraph that operates like a typewriter
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*kʷelh₁-
- Ancient Greekτῆλε (têle)
- Englishtele-
- Englishprint
- Englishprinter
- Englishteleprinter
From tele- (“far, distant, telegraph”) + printer.
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