Explore Teleprinters through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Teleprinters meaning
plural of teleprinter
Using Teleprinters
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of teleprinter
- In the example corpus, teleprinters often appears in combinations such as: of teleprinters, teleprinters were, teleprinters had.
Context around Teleprinters
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 11 start, 6 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Teleprinters
- In this selection, "teleprinters" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 19.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, electronic, mechanical, used, require, similar and operating stand out and add context to how "teleprinters" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and private teleprinters had bells and are of teleprinters operating at. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "teleprinters" sits close to words such as abadi, acidification and acker, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with teleprinters
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Teleprinters could use a variety of different communication media. (9 words)
News was received on receive-only teleprinters, without keyboards or dials. (11 words)
From the 1980s, teleprinters were replaced by computers running teleprinter emulation software. (12 words)
Most Teletype audio recordings in existence today are of teleprinters operating at 60 words per minute, and mostly of the Teletype Model 15. Another measure of the speed of a Teletype machine was in total "operations per minute (OPM)". (39 words)
Teleprinters had originally been invented as devices for automatic telegraph transmission and reception; they had a history going back to 1902 and had already become well-established in newsrooms and elsewhere by 1920. (33 words)
By 1979 the Kleinschmidt division was branching off into Electronic Data Interchange, a business in which they became very successful, and replaced the mechanical products, including teleprinters. (27 words)
Example sentences (20)
Electronic teleprinters can readily operate in a variety of speeds, but mechanical teleprinters require the change of gears in order to operate at different speeds.
Teleprinters in computing Computers used teleprinters for input and output from the early days of computing.
At first they sent signals using teleprinters but then the Americans introduced "new fangled" teletypes that made the work easier.
A system of two teleprinters, with one operator trained to use a typewriter, replaced two trained Morse code operators.
Both wire-service and private teleprinters had bells to signal important incoming messages and could ring 24/7 while the power was turned on.
By 1979 the Kleinschmidt division was branching off into Electronic Data Interchange, a business in which they became very successful, and replaced the mechanical products, including teleprinters.
By the 1930s teleprinters were being produced by Teletype in the US, Creed in Britain and Siemens in Germany.
Connecting the various sites was an enormous network of telephones, modems and teleprinters.
During the second generation remote terminal units (often in the form of Teleprinters like a Friden Flexowriter ) saw greatly increased use.
Earlier teleprinters had three rows of keys and only supported upper case letters.
Electromechanical teleprinters were heavy, complex and noisy, and have been replaced with electronic units.
From the 1980s, teleprinters were replaced by computers running teleprinter emulation software.
It could be created by some teleprinters (such as the Teletype ), which used special characters to indicate ends of records.
Later, a Telex was a message sent by a Telex network, a switched network of teleprinters similar to a telephone network.
Message centers had rows of teleprinters and large racks for paper tapes awaiting transmission.
Most Teletype audio recordings in existence today are of teleprinters operating at 60 words per minute, and mostly of the Teletype Model 15. Another measure of the speed of a Teletype machine was in total "operations per minute (OPM)".
News was received on receive-only teleprinters, without keyboards or dials.
Teleprinters could use a variety of different communication media.
Teleprinters had originally been invented as devices for automatic telegraph transmission and reception; they had a history going back to 1902 and had already become well-established in newsrooms and elsewhere by 1920.
Teleprinters were also used to record fault printout and other information in some TXE telephone exchanges.
Common combinations with teleprinters
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of teleprinters 6×
- teleprinters were 5×
- teleprinters had 4×
- teleprinters in 2×
- the teleprinters 2×
- electromechanical teleprinters 2×