"minicom" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From a trademark of Ultratec, Inc., possibly from mini- + communicator.",
  "forms": [
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      "form": "minicoms",
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  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "2004, Joe Kai, Chris Drinkwater, Primary care in urban disadvantaged communities, page 80",
          "text": "Eventually the trust agreed to install minicoms in all key access points and to make mobile minicoms available to inpatients.",
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          "ref": "2009, George Castledine, Ann Close, Oxford Handbook of Adult Nursing, page 516",
          "text": "Facilities (eg minicoms, hearing loops, etc.) may be inadequate or staff may be unaware of how to use them.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, British Sign Language For Dummies",
          "text": "Instead, with a minicom, you can see every letter the other person types, as they type it. And their spelling errors too! So if you make a mistake, then delete it, the other person sees you deleting those letters from their end.",
          "type": "quotation"
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      "glosses": [
        "A textphone."
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          "textphone",
          "textphone"
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  "word": "minicom"
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        "2": "mini-",
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  "etymology_text": "From a trademark of Ultratec, Inc., possibly from mini- + communicator.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "minicoms",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "2004, Joe Kai, Chris Drinkwater, Primary care in urban disadvantaged communities, page 80",
          "text": "Eventually the trust agreed to install minicoms in all key access points and to make mobile minicoms available to inpatients.",
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          "ref": "2009, George Castledine, Ann Close, Oxford Handbook of Adult Nursing, page 516",
          "text": "Facilities (eg minicoms, hearing loops, etc.) may be inadequate or staff may be unaware of how to use them.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2009, British Sign Language For Dummies",
          "text": "Instead, with a minicom, you can see every letter the other person types, as they type it. And their spelling errors too! So if you make a mistake, then delete it, the other person sees you deleting those letters from their end.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A textphone."
      ],
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          "textphone",
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  "word": "minicom"
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