teleprinter
English
Noun
teleprinter (plural teleprinters)
- (historical) Synonym of teletype, a telegraph that automatically prints transmited messages in letters rather than Morse code or other symbols.
- 2019, Vasily Grossman, Robert Chandler & al., transl., Stalingrad, page 120:
- No matter where they were billeted, the staff officers' reality was unchanging: a dozen telephone numbers, some signals corps pilots and motorcyclists, a signals officer, a teleprinter, a message despatch point, a radio and—laid out on the table—a map of the war, densely covered with blue and red pencil marks.
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