noun
Usage: usually capitalized W
Etymology: after Sir Charles Wheatstone
: an automatic telegraph transmitter using a perforated tape engaging with one end of a marking rod or lever the other end of which opens and closes the circuit
noun
Usage: usually capitalized W
Etymology: after Sir Charles Wheatstone
: an automatic telegraph transmitter using a perforated tape engaging with one end of a marking rod or lever the other end of which opens and closes the circuit
Webster's New International English Dictionary. Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012