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frontstroke

frontstroke adjective: of a typewriter: having typebars that are arranged in an arc above the keyboard and swing upward to strike the front of the platen.

Adjective

frontstroke (not comparable)

  1. Of a typewriter: having typebars that are arranged in an arc above the keyboard and swing upward to strike the front of the platen.
    • The speedy, well-engineered Underwood was eventually so successful that within a couple of decades, the vast majority of typewriters followed its model: They were single-shift, frontstroke, typebar typewriters with four-bank QWERTY keyboards, inked by a ribbon.2018, Mark J. P. Wolf, The Routledge Companion to Media Technology and Obsolescence

Origin of frontstroke

From front + stroke.

Questions about frontstroke

What does frontstroke mean?
Frontstroke means of a typewriter: having typebars that are arranged in an arc above the keyboard and swing upward to strike the front of the platen.
What part of speech is frontstroke?
Frontstroke is an adjective.

Words near frontstroke in the dictionary

  1. frontspread
  2. frontstage
  3. frontstages
  4. frontstretch
  5. frontstretches
  6. frontstroke
  7. frontward
  8. frontwards
  9. frontways
  10. frontwise
  11. frontwoman

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