teleprinter

English

Etymology

From tele- (far, distant, telegraph) + printer.

Noun

teleprinter (plural teleprinters)

  1. (historical) Synonym of teletype, a telegraph that automatically prints transmitted messages in letters rather than Morse code or other symbols.
    • 1951 August, “Notes and News: New Train Arrival Bureau at Euston”, in Railway Magazine, page 567:
      Particulars of trains are advised from Willesden Telegraph Office by teleprinter, supplemented as necessary by telephone from Euston Arrival Box.
    • 2019, Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert Chandler et al., Stalingrad, page 120:
      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.
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