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Teletypesetter

[ tel-i-tahyp-set-er, tel-i-tahyp- ]

Trademark.
  1. a brand name for an apparatus, actuated by punched paper tape, that fits over the keyboard of a slugcasting machine, as the Linotype, for operating it automatically. : TTS


Teletypesetter

/ ˈtɛlɪˌtaɪp-; ˌtɛlɪˈtaɪpˌsɛtə /

noun

  1. printing a keyboard device whose output can either be punched tape, which can be used directly to operate a line-casting machine, or be transmitted by cable or wire to operate such a machine indirectly


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Derived Forms

  • ˌteleˈtypeˌsetting, noun

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Other Words From

  • tele·typesetting noun

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