daisywheel

noun

1. a small metal or plastic wheel with raised, fully formed letter, numbers, and symbols on the tips of petallike spokes: used as the printing element in a type of electronic typewriter or computer printer (daisy wheel printer).

noun

1. computing a component of a computer printer in the shape of a wheel with many spokes that prints characters using a disk with characters around the circumference as the print elementAlso called: printwheel