mimeograph
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mimeograph
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A genericization from a trade name coined by A. B. Dick in 1889. From μῖμος (mîmos) + -γράφος (-gráphos); by surface analysis, mimeo + -graph (but diachronically, mimeo came from mimeograph, not the reverse).
noun mimeographs
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A machine for making printed copies using typed stencil, eventually superseded by photocopying.
So it also is in regard to the mimeograph, whose forerunner, the electric pen, was born of Edison's brain in 1877. He had been long impressed by the desirability of the rapid production of copies of written documents, and, as we have seen by a previous chapter, he invented the electric pen for this
Similar: stencil duplicator
- A copy produced by such a machine.
verb mimeographs · mimeographing · mimeographed
- To make mimeograph copies. Even the ultra-respectable "Evening Transcript", organ of the Brahmins of culture, was down for $144 for typing, mimeographing and sending out "dope" to the country press.
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noun machine for making copies
| Español | mimeógrafo, ciclostilo |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 謄写版 tōshaban |
| 中文 | 油印機 /油印机 yóuyìnjī |
| Português | mimeógrafo |
| Français | machine à polycopier, miméographe, polycopieuse |
| Italiano | ciclostile |
| Русский | рота́тор rotátor |
verb to make mimeographs
| Español | mimeografiar |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 油印 yóuyìn |
| Português | mimeografar |
| Français | polycopier |
| Italiano | mimeografare, ciclostilare |
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