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re•per•fo•ra•tor
Pronunciation: (rē-pûr'fu-rā"tur), [key]—
n.
(esp. in teletype transmission) a machine for punching a duplicate perforated paper tape of incoming messages so that they may later be retransmitted: used for automatic typesetting.
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