3D printer

or 3-D printer

[ three-dee prin-ter ]

noun

, Computers.

1. a device used to print three-dimensional objects by the process of 3D printing.

Word History and Origins

Origin of 3D printer¹

First recorded in 1990–95

Example Sentences

Once the portrait was finished, a special 3D printer was used to expand Ai-Da’s smaller artwork into the full-sized painting.

From NewsForKids.net

Artificial intelligence is then used to help reconstruct the facial feature, with the design later created with a 3D printer.

From BBC

Bob chats against the buzzing backdrop of whirring industrial tools and woodwork machines in the next room - a laser cutter, bandsaw, lathe and a 3D printer among them.

From BBC

The University of Maine has been working on one such project, developing the world's biggest 3D printer.

From BBC

As each new copy of MVP is synthesized, the strand immediately layers onto the ones made before, and the vault shell slowly emerges as if from a biological 3D printer.

From Science Magazine