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lineprinter

lineprinter is the alternative form 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.

Forms of lineprinter

plurallineprinters

Questions about lineprinter

What is lineprinter the alternative form of?
Lineprinter is the alternative form of line printer.

Words near lineprinter in the dictionary

  1. lineolately
  2. lineout
  3. lineouts
  4. lineplot
  5. lineplots
  6. lineprinter
  7. lineprinters
  8. liner
  9. liner card
  10. liner cards
  11. liner lock

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lineprinter (page history and authors); line printer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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