English Explanatory Dictionary

photostat

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A (non-xerographic) photocopy made using a Photostat machine; (loosely) any photocopy, even a xerographic one.
  2. The machine (essentially, a special camera) on which such a copy is made.
verb
  1. To make such a photocopy.

Word forms

photostat photostats photostating photostatting photostated photostatted

Etymology

A genericization from the trade name of one of the earliest commercially successful types of photocopier, a pre-xerography type. Xerography displaced it in the 1960s and 1970s; since then the relics of it are historical curiosities. More in Wikipedia at Photostat machine.

Synonyms

photocopy xerox xerograph copy photocopier copier xerographer

Derived words

photostatter
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