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noun
a small metal or plastic wheel with raised, fully formed letter, numbers, and symbols on the tips of petallike spokes: used as the printing element in a type of electronic typewriter or computer printer (daisy wheel printer ).
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Also called printwheel.
Origin of daisy wheel
First recorded in 1975–80
Words nearby daisy wheel
daisy bush, daisy chain, daisy-cutter, daisy fleabane, daisy ham, daisy wheel, dak, Dakar, dak bungalow, Dakhla, dakhma
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British Dictionary definitions for daisy wheel
daisywheel
/ (ˈdeɪzɪˌwiːl) /
noun
computing a component of a computer printer in the shape of a wheel with many spokes that prints characters using a disk with characters around the circumference as the print elementAlso called: printwheel
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