Meaning

2 senses
  1. (historical)A machine for making printed copies using typed stencil, eventually superseded by photocopying.

    рота́торrotátor

  2. A copy produced by such a machine.

More definitions
  • a rotary duplicator that uses a stencil through which ink is pressed (trade mark Roneo)

Examples

1 sentences
  1. I transcribed the original mimeographed edition into LATEX.

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
machine for making copies:

Origin

A genericization from a trade name coined by A. B. Dick in 1889. From μῖμος (mîmos) + -γρά

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).

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Forms

plural: mimeographs
Singularmimeograph
Pluralmimeographs

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a rotary duplicator that uses a stencil through which ink is pressed (trade mark Roneo):mimeomimeograph machineRoneoRoneograph

Word family

8 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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