teletype

From tele- (“far, distant, telegraph”) +‎ type (“text, typewriter”), q.v. In the United States, chiefly understood as a genericization of the Morkrum or Teletype Corporation's branded teletype machines. Doublet of telotype.

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛlɪˌtaɪp/

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teletype (plural teletypes)

1. (historical) A telegraph that automatically prints transmitted messages in letters rather than Morse code or other symbols, typically resembling a typewriter in appearance.
2. (historical) The telegrams produced by this device.
3. (historical) An early input/output device for mainframe computers.

• (telegraph that prints messages in letters): printing telegraph, teleprinter, teletyper, teletypewriter, telecryptograph, telotype, telephone typewriter; telex (connected to a telex network)
• (telegram produced by such a telegraph): telegram, telotype; telex (connected to a telex network)
• (mainframe I/O device): TTY

• glass teletype
• teletypic

teletype (third-person singular simple present teletypes, present participle teletyping, simple past and past participle teletyped)

1. (ambitransitive) To use a teletype.

• “teletype”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “teletype”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “teletype”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.