Tty
<hardware> /tit'ee/ (
ITS pronunciation, but some
Unix people say it this way as well; this pronunciation is not considered to have sexual undertones), /T T Y/
1.
teletypewriter.
2. (Especially
Unix) Any terminal at all; sometimes used to refer to the particular terminal controlling a given job (it is also the name of a Unix command which outputs the name of the current controlling terminal).
3. (
Unix) Any
serial port, whether or not the device connected to it is a terminal; so called because under Unix such devices have names of the form tty*.
Ambiguity between senses 2 and 3 is common but seldom bothersome.
4. A
TDD.
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