daisywheel printer

noun

daisywheel printer

noun

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

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Computer hardware, Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences 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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