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IMPACT PRINTER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does impact printer mean?
• IMPACT PRINTER (noun)
The noun IMPACT PRINTER has 1 sense:
1. a printer that prints by mechanical impacts
Familiarity information: IMPACT PRINTER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A printer that prints by mechanical impacts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("impact printer" is a kind of...):
printer; printing machine (a machine that prints)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "impact printer"):
bar printer (an impact printer that uses a bar to carry the type slugs)
chain printer (an impact printer that carries the type slugs by links of a revolving chain)
stylus printer; wire matrix printer; wire printer (an impact printer in which each character is represented by a pattern of dots made by wires or styli)
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