Mimeograph

Quick meaning: Mimeograph is a noun meaning A copy produced by such a machine.

Meaning

A copy produced by such a machine.

More Meanings

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 (historical) A machine for making printed copies using typed stencil, eventually superseded by photocopying.

Example Sentences

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.

The old “work horse” of the office, the mimeograph, was a starred performer at the National Business Show, which was recently held at the New York Coliseum. Although glamour equipment such as the electronic computers have had most of the headlines in recent years, the mimeograph machine is still grinding out billions of copies of material a year.

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 purpose, only to improve upon it later with a more desirable device

Word Forms

• mimeographs
• mimeographing
• mimeographed

Synonyms for mimeograph

Depending on context, synonyms include mimeo.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mimeo, photostat, autocopyist, photocopier, risograph, stencil.

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