daisy wheel

noun

1. a small metal or plastic wheel with raised, fully formed letter, numbers, and symbols on the tips of petallike spokes: used as the printing element in a type of electronic typewriter or computer printer daisy wheel printer.

Word History and Origins

Origin of daisy wheel¹

First recorded in 1975–80

Example Sentences

The most common type of apotropaic mark is the daisy wheel, or hexafoil, which is often a six-petal “flower” drawn with a pair of compasses.

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Thesis on an Apple II computer and had to petition the graduate college to allow me to have it computer printed on a “daisy wheel” printer and not have it typed on a mechanical typewriter.

From New York Times

Presented on three sets on a rotating daisy wheel, it features Mr. Fujiwara as himself meditating in a variety of ways on his own coming of age in a seaside town in Cornwall, England.

From New York Times

The dresses in different versions of broderie anglaise, perhaps with daisy wheel patterns, came in white or soft shades of shell pink, duck egg blue or primrose yellow.

From New York Times