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print-wheel

print-wheel is the alternative form of printwheel.

Meaning of printwheel

Noun

printwheel (plural printwheels)

  1. In early printers, a disk bearing impressions of characters around its rim; these are struck against the page to produce text.

Forms of print-wheel

pluralprint-wheels

Questions about print-wheel

What is print-wheel the alternative form of?
Print-wheel is the alternative form of printwheel.

Words near print-wheel in the dictionary

  1. print-out
  2. print-outs
  3. print-shop
  4. print-shops
  5. print-through
  6. print-wheel
  7. print-wheels
  8. print-worthy
  9. printabilities
  10. printability
  11. printable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: print-wheel (page history and authors); printwheel (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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