teletype

noun

tele·type ˈte-lə-ˌtīp

or less commonly Teletype : a printing device resembling a typewriter that is used to send and receive telephonic signals

—formerly a U.S. registered trademark

called also teletypewriter

: a message sent by a teletype machine

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web The teletype is among 102 pages of FBI records about Elizabeth that were publicly released late Monday in response to a Freedom of Information Act request submitted by NBC News and other media to the agency following the queen’s death on Sept. 8. —

NBC news, 24 May 2023 The first investigator assigned to the case filed a missing persons teletype, which is a notification to the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services and the FBI’s National Crime Information Center. —

Gina Barton, USA Today, 20 Apr. 2023 Goldfinger didn’t know that when he was summoned to the skipper, who had received a Naval teletype from the secretary of the Navy. —

Menachem Wecker, Sun Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2023 Save for that teletype from Capt. —

Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Jan. 2022 And there was this teletype terminal, which is just a printer and a keyboard, no screen. —

Christopher Byrd, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2022 Their secrets were accessible only via punch card and teletype terminals. —

Margaret O'mara, Discover Magazine, 24 Sep. 2018 The device, called a teletype, was essentially a mechanical typewriter that displayed text on a glass screen. —

Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 10 Oct. 2020 His mother, Carrie (Hibel), a teletype operator, later changed their surname to Lipton. —

Clay Risen, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2022 See More

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