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

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