hectograph

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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
  1. To duplicate (a document) by this process.

Word forms

hectograph hectographs hectographing hectographed

Etymology

From hecto- (“hundred”) + -graph, so called because it would make about 100 copies.

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