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ˈtɛl ɛkstelex

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. teletypewriter, teleprinter, teletype machine, telex, telex machineverb

    a character printer connected to a telegraph that operates like a typewriter

  2. telexverb

    communicate by telex

    "We telexed the information to our sister company"

Wiktionary

  1. telexnoun

    A communications system consisting of a network of teletypewriters.

  2. telexnoun

    A message sent through such a network.

  3. telexnoun

    The machine used to send and receive such messages.

  4. telexverb

    To send (a message) by telex.

ChatGPT

  1. telex

    Telex is a communication system, developed in the mid-20th century, that uses telegraphy to relay typed messages across a network of teletypype machines. It was widely used for business communications before the advent of email. The word "telex" is also used to refer to a message sent via the telex network.

Wikidata

  1. Telex

    The Belgian synth-pop group Telex was formed in 1978 by Marc Moulin, Dan Lacksman, and Michel Moers, with the intention of "Making something really European, different from rock, without guitar — and the idea was electronic music." Mixing the aesthetics of disco, punk and experimental electronic music, they released a stripped-down synthesized cover version of "Twist à St. Tropez" by Les Chats Sauvages. They followed up with an ultra-slow cover of "Rock Around the Clock", a hilariously relaxed and dispassionate version of Plastic Bertrand's punk song "Ça Plane Pour Moi", and a perversely mechanical cover of "Dance to the Music", originally by Sly Stone. Like Kraftwerk, Telex built its music entirely from electronic instruments, and the sounds of the two groups have a certain similarity. However, unlike Kraftwerk's studied Teutonic irony, Telex favor a more joyously irreverent humor. The group's debut album, Looking for Saint Tropez, featured the worldwide hit single "Moskow Diskow," one of the first-ever electronic dance/pop songs. In 1980 Telex's manager asked the group to enter the Eurovision Song Contest. The group entered and were eventually sent to the finals, although it apparently hoped to come in last: "We had hoped to finish last, but Portugal decided otherwise. We got ten points from them and finished on the 19th spot." The group's song "Euro-Vision" was a cheerful bleepy song with deliberately banal lyrics about the contest itself. The Eurovision audience seemed unsure how to react to the performance, and after the band stopped playing, there was mostly stunned silence, with scattered polite applause; Michel Moers took a photograph of the bewildered audience. The band walked off amid sounds of muttering. A mark of the confusion caused by the performance was when vote-counting began, and Greece awarded Belgium three points, the announcer thought she had misheard and tried to award the points to the Netherlands.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Telex in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Telex in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

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