"daisywheel printer" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: daisywheel printers [plural]
Etymology: daisy wheel, from the resemblance to the flower. Head templates: {{en-noun}} daisywheel printer (plural daisywheel printers)
  1. (computer hardware) A printer that operates by striking the page with moulded characters from a rotating circular arrangement, obsolete since the late 1980s. Categories (topical): Computer hardware Translations (a printer that operates by striking the page with moulded characters from a rotating circular arrangement): margarétafejes nyomtató (Hungarian)

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