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daisy wheel

–noun
a small metal or plastic wheel with raised, fully formed letter, numbers, and symbols on the tips of petallike spokes: used as the printing element in a type of electronic typewriter or computer printer (daisy wheel printer).
Also called printwheel.


Origin:
1975–80
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daisy wheel  
n.  A printing device used in some electric typewriters and printers, consisting of printing characters fixed at the ends of spokes on a wheel.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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