ticker

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: ticker

1	n	a character printer that automatically prints stock quotations on ticker tape
2	n	a small portable timepiece
3	n	the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: ticker

Type of:: character printer, character-at-a-time printer, serial printer
a printer that prints a single character at a time

Types:: show 7 types...; hide 7 types...; analog watch
a watch that represents time by the position of hands on a dial; digital watch
a watch with a digital display; hunter, hunting watch
a watch with a hinged metal lid to protect the crystal; pendulum watch
(18th century) a watch with a balance wheel having a fake pendulum attached to it; pocket watch
a watch that is carried in a small watch pocket; stem-winder
a watch that is wound by turning a knob at the stem; wrist watch, wristwatch
a watch that is worn strapped to the wrist

Type of:: horologe, timekeeper, timepiece
a measuring instrument or device for keeping time

Types:: athlete's heart
enlarged heart commonly found among athletes trained for endurance; biauriculate heart
a heart (as of mammals and birds and reptiles) having two auricles

Type of:: internal organ, viscus
a main organ that is situated inside the body

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