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type wheel

type wheel is the alternative form of typewheel.

Meaning of typewheel

Noun

typewheel (plural typewheels)

  1. A wheel in an early telegraph or typewriter that bears the physical characters on its periphery and is used to print them onto the page.

Forms of type wheel

pluraltype wheels

Questions about type wheel

What is type wheel the alternative form of?
Type wheel is the alternative form of typewheel.

Words near type wheel in the dictionary

  1. type theories
  2. type theory
  3. type up
  4. type varieties
  5. type variety
  6. type wheel
  7. type wheels
  8. type xi
  9. type-check
  10. type-checked
  11. type-checking

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Adapted from Wiktionary: type wheel (page history and authors); typewheel (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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