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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
Xe·rox       [zeer-oks] Pronunciation Key
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)  Pronunciation Key 
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).

Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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.

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xerox

noun
1. a copy made by a xerographic printer 
2. a duplicator (trade mark Xerox) that copies graphic matter by the action of light on an electrically charged photoconductive insulating surface in which the latent image is developed with a resinous powder 

verb
1. reproduce by xerography [syn: photocopy

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XEROX

PARC /zee'roks park'/ n. The famed Palo Alto Research Center. For more than a decade, from the early 1970s into the mid-1980s, PARC yielded an astonishing volume of groundbreaking hardware and software innovations. The modern mice, windows, and icons style of software interface was invented there. So was the laser printer and the local-area network; and PARC's series of D machines anticipated the powerful personal computers of the 1980s by a decade. Sadly, the prophets at PARC were without honor in their own company, so much so that it became a standard joke to describe PARC as a place that specialized in developing brilliant ideas for everyone else.

The stunning shortsightedness and obtusity of XEROX's top-level suits has been well anatomized in "Fumbling The Future: How XEROX Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal Computer" by Douglas K. Smith and Robert C. Alexander (William Morrow & Co., 1988, ISBN 0-688-09511-9).

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