copying machine

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noun

a machine that makes copies of original documents, especially by xerography.

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Also called copier, copy machine .

Compare photocopier.

Origin of copying machine

First recorded in 1795–1805

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copygirl, copygraph, copyhold, copyholder, copy in, copying machine, copyist, copyleft, copy paper, copy protection, copyread

How to use copying machine in a sentence

The current mutants are the virus’ first attempts to maximize its co-opting of the human population as viral copying machines.
The COVID-19 Virus Is Mutating. What Does That Mean for Vaccines?|Alice Park|January 7, 2021|Time
He writes a beautiful hand, you know; and, I dare say, his mere services as a copying machine are of some value.
She and I, Volume 2|John Conroy Hutcheson
It has a cast-iron lid, secured by a screw and shackles, not unlike a copying machine.
Triumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and Science|J. Hamilton Fyfe
At the age of twenty-four Petty took out a patent for the invention of a copying machine.
Essays on Mankind and Political Arithmetic|William Petty

Being of an ingenious mechanical turn, we find him taking out a patent for a letter-copying machine.
Self-Help|Samuel Smiles
The copying machine for Mr Secretary Thompson is in hand, and will soon be finished and sent to him.
The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Volume 3|Various

copying machine

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