daisy wheel
noun
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 (daisy wheel printer).
Also called
printwheel.
Origin of daisy wheel
First recorded in 1975–80
Words nearby daisy wheel
daisy bush,
daisy chain,
daisy cutter,
daisy fleabane,
daisy ham,
daisy wheel,
daisy-cutter,
daisywheel,
dak,
dak bungalow,
dak.
British Dictionary definitions for daisywheel
daisywheel
/ (ˈdeɪzɪˌwiːl) /
noun
computing
a component of a computer printer in the shape of a wheel with many spokes that prints characters using a disk with characters around the circumference as the print element
Also called: printwheel