teletypewriters

[tel-i-tahyp-rahy-ter, tel-i-tahyp-]

tel·e·type·writ·er

[tel-i-tahyp-rahy-ter, tel-i-tahyp-]
noun
a telegraphic apparatus by which signals are sent by striking the letters and symbols of the keyboard of an instrument resembling a typewriter and are received by a similar instrument that automatically prints them in type corresponding to the keys struck. Abbreviation: TTY

Origin:
1900–05; tele-1 + typewriter
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