teletype

See also: télétype

English

Etymology

From tele- (“far, distant, telegraph”) +‎ type (“text, typewriter”), q.v. In the United States, chiefly understood as a genericization of the Morkrum or Teletype Corporation's branded teletype machines. Doublet of telotype.

Pronunciation

(General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛlɪˌtaɪp/

Noun

teletype (plural teletypes)

(historical) A telegraph that automatically prints transmited messages in letters rather than Morse code or other symbols, typically resembling a typewriter in appearance.
(historical) The telegrams produced by this device.
(historical) An early input/output device for mainframe computers.

Synonyms

(telegraph that prints messages in letters): printing telegraph, teleprinter, teletyper, teletypewriter, telecryptograph, telotype, telephone typewriter; telex (connected to a telex network)
(telegram produced by such a telegraph): telegram, telotype; telex (connected to a telex network)
(mainframe I/O device): TTY

Derived terms

teletypic

Translations

automatically translated electric telegraph

Arabic: مُبْرِقَة كَاتِبَة‎ f (mubriqa kātiba)
Armenian: հեռատիպ (hy) (heṙatip)
Basque: teletipo
Belarusian: тэлета́йп m (teljetájp)
Bulgarian: телета́йп m (teletájp), телепри́нтер m (teleprínter)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 電傳打字機／电传打字机 (diànchuán-dǎzìjī), 電傳／电传 (zh) (diànchuán)
Czech: dálnopis m
Danish: fjernskriver c
Dutch: teleprinter m
Esperanto: teletajpilo
Estonian: teletaip
Finnish: kaukokirjoitin
French: télétype (fr) m, téléscripteur (fr) m, téléimprimeur (fr) m
Georgian: ტელეტაიპი (ṭeleṭaiṗi)
German: Fernschreiber (de) m
Greek: τηλέτυπο (el) n (tilétypo)
Hebrew: טֶלֶפְּרִינְטֶר‎ (he) m (teleprínter)
Hungarian: távgépiró
Italian: telescrivente (it) f
Japanese: テレタイプ (teretaipu), テレタイプライター (teretaipuraitā)
Korean: 텔레타이프 (telletaipeu), 전신 타자기(電信打字機) (jeonsin tajagi)
Latvian: teletaips m
Lithuanian: teletaipas m
Macedonian: телепри́нтер m (teleprínter)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fjernskriver m
Persian: تله تایپ‎ (fa) (tele tâyp), تله پرینتر‎ (tele perinter)
Polish: dalekopis (pl) m
Portuguese: teletipo (pt) m
Romanian: teleimprimator (ro) n
Russian: телета́йп (ru) m (teletájp), дальнопи́сец m (dalʹnopísec) (dated, rare)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: телепрѝнтер m
Roman: teleprìnter (sh) m
Slovak: ďalekopis m
Slovene: teleprinter m
Spanish: teletipo (es) m
Swedish: teleprinter (sv) c, fjärrskrivmaskin c
Turkish: teleprinter
Ukrainian: телета́йп m (teletájp)
Uzbek: teletayp (uz)

Verb

teletype (third-person singular simple present teletypes, present participle teletyping, simple past and past participle teletyped)

(transitive, intransitive) To use a teletype.