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print-out

1899, from print (v.) + out (adv.).

Usage examples of "print-out".

Little wonder he describes himself as humming happily as the machine all summer, eager for the first trial print-out in the fall: I myself was as involved by this time in his quest as if it had been my own, and searched vainly, heart-in-mouth, among his technical appendices and catalogues to see whether they might include the Pattern for Heroes, which surely Polyeidus must have plagiarized from him -- unless, as seemed ever less implausible, Computer itself was some future version of my seer.

Little wonder he describes himself as humming happily as the machine all summer, eager for the first trial print-out in the fall: I myself was as involved by this time in his quest as if it had been my own, and searched vainly, heart-in-mouth, among his technical appendices and catalogues to see whether they might include the Pattern for Heroes, which surely Polyeidus must have plagiarized from him -- unless, as seemed ever less implausible, Computer itself was some future version of my seer.

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However, all individual stories and poems in this magazine are copyright c 2002 by their respective authors or artists, who have granted Planet Magazine the right to use these works for this issue in both electronic form and any resulting print-outs by readers for noncommercial, individual use.

Far from being a story which alternately excites and consoles, life is an endless slurry of computer print-out, a pie chart of statistical trends in which you, I fear, have been allotted the slimmest of slices.

The Captain was flatteringly deferential so Killashandra nodded as he made his points, and frowned wisely at the print-out as if she knew what she was seeing Fortunately the bridge was buffered against crystal noise as the rest of the ship was not, giving her a respite from the sound.

Grudgingly, the machine on emergency power finally chundered a print-out.

To get a proper reading you'd need a full print-out, and about the only way of getting that would be to track down the original processor that programmed the source-data - in this case, probably a bank of large-scale aerial survey maps, reduced to micro-dots.

Some were on cartridge paper, some on pages torn from what looked like school exercise books, and some on folded, green-lined computer print-out.

He consulted the dot matrix print-out from his cruiser's dashboard computer.

The cabin attendant - this one was a male - came aft and handed both men copies of a print-out that had just arrived on the aircraft facsimile machine.

There was junk everywhere, toppled stacks of tapes, print-out, dirty plates, clothes strewn over sound equipment, books, towels, burnt-out candles, package shells, customised appliances with insulating tape and rubber flex sticking out of them.

Late one night Mike made print-out of new code via Lunaya Pravda's facilities, and night editor turned roll over to another comrade who converted it into a very small roll of film and passed it along in turn, and none ever knew what they handled or why.

Enmeshed in their spools, charts, print-outs and psychographics, the media-men are hoping this too.