The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ticker \Tick"er\ (t[i^]k"[~e]r), n. [See Tick.]
One who, or that which, ticks, or produces a ticking sound, as a watch or clock, a telegraphic sounder, etc.
A telegraphic receiving instrument that automatically prints off stock quotations ( stock ticker), market report, or other news on a paper ribbon or ``tape.''
an electronic instrument receiving information by transmision from a remote source and displaying it in readable fashion, not necessarily on paper tape (e.g. on a video display terminal or moving ribbon of electronically controlled lights).
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The heart. [Colloq.]
Ticker tape Tape from or designed to be used in a stock ticker, usu. of paper and being narrow but long.
Stock ticker, an electro-mechanical information receiving device connected by telegraphic wire to a stock exchange, and which prints out the latest transactions or news on stock exchanges, commonly found in the offices of stock brokers. By 1980 such devices were largely superseded by electronic stock quotation devices.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 A device, used primarily in the 20th century, which printed prices and volumes of stock trades on paper tape as the data became available. 2 Any device or display showing price and volumes of stock trades as the data become available. n. 1 A device, used primarily in the 20th century, which printed prices and volumes of stock trades on paper tape as the data became available. 2 Any device or display showing price and volumes of stock trades as the data become available.
WordNet
n. character printer that automatically prints stock quotations on tickertape [syn: ticker]
Wikipedia
Stock Ticker is a now out of print board game that was popular upon its release and is still played today. It was released by Copp-Clark Publishing, a venerable Canadian publisher.
Usage examples of "stock ticker".
Overhead, draped from one wall to the other, ran the gigantic yellow ribbon of the stock ticker, reeling off in magnified form the information that the main computer was transmitting everywhere.
Milo had never seen a stock ticker before, and the quotation for Egyptian cotton happened to be coming in just as he asked the headwaiter to explain it to him.
I was invited to partake of bridge, but said I had a date with Sperling to discuss photography plans for tomorrow, which was true He led me to a part of the house I hadn't seen yet, into a big high-ceilinged room with four thousand books around the walls, a stock ticker, and a desk with five phones on it among other things, gave me a fourth or fifth chance to refuse a cigar, invited me to sit, and asked what I wanted.
A stock ticker materialized at the bottom of one of the monitor screens, scrolling from right to left.
His first commercially successful invention was an electric stock ticker, which delivered stock quotations almost instantaneously and which J.
There are similarities here to the stock ticker in investment concerns, which may run many hours behind on very active trading days.
Valerie Riordan sat at her desk, looking at the icons of her life: a tiny digital stock ticker that she would surreptitiously glance down at during appointments.