line printer

impact printer that prints one entire line of text at a time
class practices Q1320033
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line printer

Summary

line printer draws 46 Wikipedia views per month (practices category, ranking #172 of 764).[1]

Key Facts

  • line printer's subclass of is recorded as impact printer[2].
  • line printer's subclass of is recorded as printer[3].
  • line printer's Commons category is recorded as Line printers[4].
  • line printer's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0cfqz[5].
  • line printer's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300024538[6].
  • line printer's Quora topic ID is recorded as Line-Printer[7].
  • line printer's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2781312812[8].
  • line printer's Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging is recorded as 10527[9].
  • line printer's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 03678153-n[10].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for line printer include line feed[11], a control character[12].

Why It Matters

line printer draws 46 Wikipedia views per month (practices category, ranking #172 of 764).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] It is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

Entities named for it include line feed[11], a control character[12].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . it-ord.idg.se. it-ord.idg.se. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [11] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [12] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). line printer. Retrieved March 9, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/line-printer
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_line-printer_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{line printer}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/line-printer}, note = {Accessed: 2026-03-09}}
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