teletype
pronunciation
How to pronounce teletype in British English:
UK ['telɪtaɪp]
How to pronounce teletype in American English:
US ['teləˌtaɪp]
Word Origin
- teletype (n.)
- 1904, trademark for a system of typewriters connected electronically, short for teletypewriter (1904), a form of telegraph in which the receiver prints messages like a typewriter, from tele- + typewriter.
Example
- 1. The confetti that accumulated in a plastic tray on the teletype 's side provided nearly as much fun as the game .
- 2. This is a simple encoding scheme that was first used on teletype machines to map keyboard characters to numbers .
- 3. " I worked in a small room with a telephone and teletype machine with outside lines , " he remembers .
- 4. It was a clunky old teletype machine and it could barely do anything compared to the computers we have today . But it changed my life .
- 5. I hunched over the teletype in the terminal room , a hulking console that shook each time its typewriter head whammed leftward to begin a new line .