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tick·er tape
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Princeton's WordNet
ticker tapenoun
a continuous thin ribbon of paper on which stock quotes are written
Wiktionary
ticker tapenoun
Paper tape on which a stock ticker, news ticker or similar device would print incoming information.
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ticker tape
A ticker tape is a device that was used to transmit stock price information over telegraph lines. It is a narrow strip of paper that contained stock quotes printed by a ticker machine. It was widely used in the late 19th and early 20th centuries before electronic screens and digital tickers became prevalent. The term is still used today metaphorically to refer to stock price information scrolling across screens. The phrase "ticker tape" also refers to the streamers of paper thrown from buildings during parades, originally made from actual ticker tape.
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Ticker tape
Ticker tape was the earliest digital electronic communications medium, transmitting stock price information over telegraph lines, in use between around 1870 through 1970. It consisted of a paper strip which ran through a machine called a stock ticker, which printed abbreviated company names as alphabetic symbols followed by numeric stock transaction price and volume information. The term "ticker" came from the sound made by the machine as it printed. Paper ticker tape started to become obsolete in the 1960s, as television and computers were increasingly used to transmit financial information. The concept of the stock ticker lives on, however, in the scrolling electronic tickers seen on brokerage walls and on financial television networks. Ticker tape was invented in 1867 by Edward A. Calahan, an employee of the American Telegraph Company.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of ticker tape in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of ticker tape in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
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America cheered as the women's soccer team won an historic fourth World Cup, but our support shouldn't end with ticker-tape parades.
We are all happy the discussions are open again. I think it was a wake-up calls for some who voted no and went home and they maybe did not get a ticker tape parade.
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