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printer

/ˈpɹɪntə(ɹ)/noun

A machine, typically connected to a computer, that puts text or pictures onto paper; also a similar device that builds three-dimensional objects.

Example sentence

  • The printer ran out of ink halfway through my document.

Historically also the person or firm that prints books, a sense still alive in publishing: 'the book is at the printer's'.

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