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teletypes

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Tel⋅e⋅type

  [tel-i-tahyp] noun, verb, -typed, -typ⋅ing.
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1. Trademark. a brand of teletypewriter.
–noun
2. (lowercase) a network of teletypewriters with their connecting lines, switchboards, etc.
–verb (used with object)
3. (lowercase) to send by Teletype.
–verb (used without object)
4. (lowercase) to operate a Teletype.
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teletype 
1904, trademark for a communications 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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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