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CTY

/sit'ee/ or /C-T-Y/

n. [MIT]

The terminal physically associated with a computer's system console. The term is a contraction of 'Console TTY', that is, 'Console TeleTYpe'. This ITS- and TOPS-10-associated term has become less common, as most UNIX hackers simply refer to the CTY as 'the console'.