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line printers

line printers is the plural of line printer.

Meaning of line printer

Noun

line printer (plural line printers)

  1. A high-speed impact printer, most often used by older mainframes, that prints an entire line in a single operation.

Questions about line printers

What is line printers the plural of?
Line printers is the plural of line printer.

Words near line printers in the dictionary

  1. line out
  2. line outs
  3. line plot
  4. line plots
  5. line printer
  6. line printers
  7. line scan
  8. line scans
  9. line segment
  10. line segments
  11. line shaft

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