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daisywheel printer

noun

Etymology

From daisy + wheel + printer, from the resemblance to the flower.

  1. inherited from *printen✻
  2. suffixed as printer — “print + er”
  3. compounded as daisywheel printer — “daisy + wheel + printer”

Definitions

  1. A printer that operates by striking the page with moulded characters from a rotating…

    A printer that operates by striking the page with moulded characters from a rotating circular arrangement, obsolete since the late 1980s.

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