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Vinony

teletypewriter

noun

  1. a telegraphic apparatus by which signals are sent by striking the letters and symbols of the keyboard of an instrument resembling a typewriter and are received by a similar instrument that automatically prints them in type corresponding to the keys struck
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noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-der. Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle)lbor. English tele- English typewriter English teletypewriter From tele- (“far, distant, telegraph”) + typewriter.

  1. Synonym of teletype (“telegraph that automatically prints transmitted messages in letters rather than Morse code or other symbols”).