hectograph
Meanings
noun
- An old printing machine that involved the transfer of an original, prepared with special inks, to a pan of gelatin or a gelatin pad pulled tight on a metal frame.
verb
- To duplicate (a document) by this process.
Word forms
Etymology
From hecto- (“hundred”) + -graph, so called because it would make about 100 copies.
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