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Definition of Paper tape
1. Noun. A long narrow strip of paper.
Definition of Paper tape
1. Noun. (computing) an early sequential digital storage medium consisting of a long roll of paper, each character being coded as a pattern of punched holes; originally used with teletype machines. ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Paper Tape
Literary usage of Paper tape
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"... being actuated by the electrical pulsations set up by the transmitter, records
them in ink, on stiff paper tape, as dots and dashes. ..."
2. The Principles of Electric Wave Telegraphy by John Ambrose Fleming (1908)
"the paper tape, this pulley being weighted, but held up by an electromagnet,
E, (see Fig. 20). When this jockey pulley is allowed to exert its pressure upon ..."
3. The Principles of Electric Wave Telegraphy by John Ambrose Fleming (1908)
"the paper tape, this pulley being weighted, but held up by an electromagnet,
Ej (see Fig. 20). When this jockey pulley is allowed to exert its pressure upon ..."
4. Electric Railway Handbook: A Reference Book of Practice Data, Formulas and by Albert Sutton Richey, William Charles Greenough (1915)
"The cable is composed of a single conductor, covered with paper tape to the'required
... The highest grade of pure manila rope paper tape should be applied ..."
5. The Electrician (1883)
"In most of them a long piece of paper tape is perforated with a series of dashes
... The paper tape on which the message is to be prepared, being put in the ..."
6. The Principles of Electric Wave Telegraphy and Telephony by John Ambrose Fleming (1919)
"This paper tape is then passed through a Wheatstone transmitter, which operates
by relays the switches at the transmitting station at Carnarvon (50 miles ..."
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