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Xe⋅rox

[zeer-oks]
1. Trademark. a brand name for a copying machine for reproducing printed, written, or pictorial matter by xerography.
–noun
2. (sometimes lowercase) a copy made on a xerographic copying machine.
–verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
3. (sometimes lowercase) to print or reproduce by xerography.
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Xer·ox   (zîr'ŏks)   
A trademark used for a photocopying process or machine employing xerography. This trademark often occurs in print in lowercase as a verb and noun: "Letters you send should be xeroxed after you sign them" (Progressive Architecture). "He has four or five sheets of foolscap, xeroxes, I see, of court documents" (Scott Turow).
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Word Origin & History

Xerox 
1952, trademark taken out by Haloid Co. of Rochester, N.Y., for a copying device, from earlier xerography "photographic reduplication without liquid developers" (1948), from Gk. xeros "dry" + -ography as in photography. The verb is first attested 1965, from the noun, despite strenuous objection from the Xerox copyright department.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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