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mimeograph
[ mim-ee-uh-graf, -grahf ]
noun
- a printing machine with an ink-fed drum, around which a cut waxed stencil is placed and which rotates as successive sheets of paper are fed into it.
- a copy made from a mimeograph.
verb (used with object)
- to duplicate (something) by means of a mimeograph.
Mimeograph
/ ˈmɪmɪəˌɡrɑːf; -ˌɡræf /
noun
- an office machine for printing multiple copies of text or line drawings from an inked drum to which a cut stencil is fixed
- a copy produced by this machine
verb
- to print copies from (a prepared stencil) using this machine
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- un·mime·o·graphed adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of mimeograph1
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Example Sentences
When I began, the mimeograph machine was kind of the height of technology.
He moved to one corner and began dragging out an old double-cylinder mimeograph.
So it also is in regard to the mimeograph, whose forerunner, the electric pen, was born of Edison's brain in 1877.
What are the differences in a hectograph, a mimeograph and multigraph?
The mimeograph was the same idea in a totally different form.
One would have thought that printing had never been invented, nor even the mimeograph.
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