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Definition of Stock ticker
1. Noun. A character printer that automatically prints stock quotations on ticker tape.
Generic synonyms: Character Printer, Character-at-a-time Printer, Serial Printer
Definition of Stock ticker
1. Noun. (trading) A device, used primarily in the 20th century, which printed prices and volumes of stock trades on paper tape as the data became available. ¹
2. Noun. (trading) Any device or display showing price and volumes of stock trades as the data become available. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stock Ticker
Literary usage of Stock ticker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1901)
"It may operate about every third revolution of the receiving wheels. STOCK-TICKER
SYSTEMS. 218. Stock-ticker telegraphs may be divided into the single-wire ..."
2. Edison: His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer, Thomas Commerford Martin (1910)
"It is not to be inferred, however, that the modern stock ticker has anything to
do with ... That which the ubiquitous stock ticker has done is to give in- ..."
3. A Dictionary of Electrical Words, Terms and Phrases by Edwin James Houston (1903)
"ber of subscribers, each of whom is furnished with a stock ticker. ... Callahan's
Printing Telegraph te used as a stock ticker. (See Telegraphy, Printing. ..."
4. The Stock Market by Solomon Stephen Huebner (1922)
"News tickers are operated on the same principle as the stock ticker, ...
Whereas the stock ticker furnishes quotations promptly, the news ticker serves to ..."
5. A Treatise on Telegraphy by International Correspondence Schools (1901)
"The systems that are used in the large cities for reporting stock quotations,
race-track news, etc., are commonly known as stock-ticker systems. ..."
6. The Stock Exchange from Within by William Clarkson Van Antwerp (1913)
"... the mass of Wall Street financial material in the magazines and journals, the
stock ticker, the news ticker, the printed news bulletins, the card index ..."
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