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teleprompter - 3 dictionary results

Tel⋅e⋅Promp⋅Ter

[tel-uh-promp-ter]
Trademark.
a brand name for an off-camera device that displays a magnified script so that it is visible to the performers or speakers on a television program.
Tel·e·Promp·Ter   (těl'ə-prŏmp'tər)   
A trademark used for a device employed in television to show an actor or a speaker an enlarged line-by-line reproduction of a script, unseen by the audience. This trademark often occurs in print in lowercase: "Although he was cheered loudly by most delegates, leftist hecklers and a faulty teleprompter gave him some anxious moments" (Chicago Tribune).

teleprompter 
1951, originally a proprietary name in U.S., from tele- + prompter. The equivalent British proprietary name is Autocue.
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