1
: a communication service involving teletypewriters connected by wire through automatic exchanges
also
: a teletypewriter used in telex
2
: a message sent by telex
telexed; telexing; telexes
1
: to send (something, such as a message) by telex
2
: to communicate with by telex
Examples of telex in a Sentence
Noun
The message was sent by telex.
We received a telex from New York.
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Randy Kennedy, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2024
In the Industrial Age, however, huge swells of productivity and connectivity were unleashed by the machinery of connected data—from pneumatic tubes for paper telegrams to the mid-century telex, the wired telephone infrastructure, and the wireless networks now displacing it.
—Nicholas De Monchaux, Wired, 1 Dec. 2021
For another work meant to critique the divide between art and the outside world, Haacke set up a telex machine to print live news updates on a seemingly endless paper scroll.
—Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2022
The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication was founded in 1973 to replace the telex and is now used by over 11,000 financial institutions to send secure messages and payment orders.
—Charles Riley, CNN, 28 Feb. 2022
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Noun
In his own work Mr. Whitman took up such unconventional tools as strobe lights, lasers, telex and fax machines, public access television, radio channels and, eventually, cellphones, the internet and NFTs, along with decidedly nontechnological elements like flames and running water.
—Randy Kennedy, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2024
In the Industrial Age, however, huge swells of productivity and connectivity were unleashed by the machinery of connected data—from pneumatic tubes for paper telegrams to the mid-century telex, the wired telephone infrastructure, and the wireless networks now displacing it.
—Nicholas De Monchaux, Wired, 1 Dec. 2021
For another work meant to critique the divide between art and the outside world, Haacke set up a telex machine to print live news updates on a seemingly endless paper scroll.
—Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2022
The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication was founded in 1973 to replace the telex and is now used by over 11,000 financial institutions to send secure messages and payment orders.
—Charles Riley, CNN, 28 Feb. 2022
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“Telex.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/telex. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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telex
1 of 2 noun
tel·ex
ˈtel-ˌeks 
1
: a communication service involving teletypewriters connected by wire through automatic exchanges
2
: a message sent by telex
telex
2 of 2 verb1
: to send (as a message) by telex
2
: to communicate with by telex
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