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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A trademark for a teletypewriter.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A type-printing telegraph.

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Examples

  • Edgar Hoover sent a Teletype report to the president and carbon copied the heads of the CIA, army, and air force, the White House situation room, the secretary of state, and the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.

    Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011

  • The OSS offices fairly hummed with a barely repressed sense of seriousness and self-importance, which was reinforced by the urgent clatter of the Teletype and the pressing business of the brass, who were usually flanked by aides.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • Edgar Hoover sent a Teletype report to the president and carbon copied the heads of the CIA, army, and air force, the White House situation room, the secretary of state, and the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.

    Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011

  • Teletype: Due to near exhaustion of Army troops, who have endured rain, snow and other inclement weather while traversing treacherous, steep, hilly, vine, tree and brush covered areas, Lt. Col.

    The Curse of D.B. Cooper Geoffrey Gray 2011

  • Edgar Hoover sent a Teletype report to the president and carbon copied the heads of the CIA, army, and air force, the White House situation room, the secretary of state, and the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.

    Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011

  • Edgar Hoover sent a Teletype report to the president and carbon copied the heads of the CIA, army, and air force, the White House situation room, the secretary of state, and the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.

    Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011

  • In 1968, Computerworld reported on a carrying case that turned a Teletype machine into a 75-pound mobile terminal -- wheels were optional.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • The OSS offices fairly hummed with a barely repressed sense of seriousness and self-importance, which was reinforced by the urgent clatter of the Teletype and the pressing business of the brass, who were usually flanked by aides.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • After the lists had been checked and rechecked, the cleared names came back from headquarters to the Jacksonville Field Office via Teletype.

    The Kennedy Detail Gerald Blaine 2010

  • "The original Teletype factory buildings are in Lakeview, not far from Wrigley Field."

    "1970s lifestyle 'protects planet.'" Ann Althouse 2009

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