teletype

Trademark.

1. a brand of teletypewriter.

noun

2. (lowercase) a network of teletypewriters with their connecting lines, switchboards, etc.

verb (used with object), Tel·e·typed, Tel·e·typ·ing.

3. (lowercase) to send by Teletype.

verb (used without object), Tel·e·typed, Tel·e·typ·ing.

4. (lowercase) to operate a Teletype.

noun

1. trademark a type of teleprinter
2. (sometimes not capital) a network of such devices, used for communicating messages, information, etc

verb

3. (sometimes not capital) to transmit (a message) by Teletype

n.1904, trademark for a communications system of typewriters connected electronically, short for teletypewriter (1904), a form of telegraph in which the receiver prints messages like a typewriter, from tele- + typewriter.