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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
teletype

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.

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teletype

n. 1 A teleprinter 2 A message printed by a teleprinter 3 Early input/output device for mainframe computer vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To operate a teleprinter 2 (context transitive English) To send a message via teleprinter

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Teletype (disambiguation)

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Usage examples of "teletype".

The conference table was piled with papers, site diagrams, photos, teletype messages, and a dozen very used polystyrene coffee cups.

The bank also contained television, telephoto and teletype connections back to Fat Boy for printout of verbal and visual data, together with local storage banks for short-term hold and cross-reference.

At present, Smedley was tabulating the articles from the case and would be quite pleased to have Cranston come over and help him, if only it would put an end to the unrequested teletype messages from his New York friend, Police Commissioner Weston.

Michael Cagliari and General Cox were huddled over the Teletype operator in the small room that housed the Hot Line to the Kremlin.

She checked the Teletypes to see if anything had come up during the night, but other than a plastique bomb in a bar, and a street fight in Cholon, everything had been peaceful.

He would detour past the statehouse and check the signoff times on the teletype copy he had filed that night.

The intercepts were then forwarded to Arlington Hall, headquarters of the Army codebreakers, over forty-six special secure teletype lines.

From paneled wall to paneled wall lay a thick beige carpet covered by desks, computers, and teletype machines that would have easily meshed into the plushest offices of Madison Avenue.

She saw bright offices, large windows overlooking the sea, charts on the walls, teletypes clicking, conferences, telephones with many pushbuttons, international visitors, articles in business magazines.

She would sit at the newspaper I and watch the teletypes in despair, reporting sit-ins in Alabama, and the doubling of our ground troops in VietNam raising the total to a mere hundred and eighty-one thousand men, numbers that were staggering.

They gave her interesting stories to do, and sometimes she just stood there and read the Teletypes, feeling as though she had a finger on the pulse of the world.

And for the rest of that week, the Teletypes were full of reports of an incredible gathering of youth for a concert in a place called Woodstock.

She wrote columns, she read Teletypes, she went to the AP office, she wrote a piece about Saigon, she even went on a brief mission.

Politics seemed to be getting more complicated everywhere these days, and she enjoyed the Teletypes she read in Saigon, while she continued to write articles from there, and search for Tony.

His remark followed an uneasy silence after the coder teletype finished clicking out the frightening message.