单词 | reperforator |
释义 | reperforatorn. Telegraphy and Computing. Now historical. A machine which perforates paper tape in accordance with telegraphically received signals or computer output; a machine for producing a copy of a perforated tape. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > telegraph > [noun] > types of > recording telegraphs telegraph register1845 Morse1867 recorder1867 nicker1871 ink-writer1876 inker1882 ticker1883 news ticker1887 tape-machine1891 synchronograph1897 tape-ticker1904 undulator1910 reperforator1913 1913 D. M. McNicol Amer. Telegraph Pract. 415 The reception of signals is accomplished in an entirely different manner, being received by an electromagnetic punch, or ‘reperforator’ which, instead of marking the dots and dashes..with ink, as in the Wheatstone system, perforates the characters in a continuously moving strip of paper tape, the received tape resembling the transmitting tape. 1948 Annals Computation Lab. Harvard Univ. 16 61 The reperforator and the printer operate on a time division basis. 1973 Goacher & Denny Teleprinter Handbk. iii. 10/1 Reperforators are used to store teleprinter signals on punched paper tape so that they may be retransmitted later by means of a suitable tape reader. 2005 J. R. Ferris Intelligence & Strategy iv. 176 Creed's..had never used the reperforator technology required for Rockex II. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1913 |
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