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paper tapes

paper tapes is the plural of paper tape.

Meaning of paper tape

Noun

paper tape (usually uncountable, plural paper tapes)

  1. (historical, usually) An early sequential digital storage medium originally used with teletype machines, consisting of a long roll of paper, each character being encoded as a pattern of punched holes.

Questions about paper tapes

What is paper tapes the plural of?
Paper tapes is the plural of paper tape.

Words near paper tapes in the dictionary

  1. paper streamer
  2. paper streamers
  3. paper street
  4. paper streets
  5. paper tape
  6. paper tapes
  7. paper the house
  8. paper thosai
  9. paper thosais
  10. paper ticket
  11. paper tickets

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