duplicating machine

American  

noun

1. a duplicator, especially one for making identical copies of documents, letters, etc.

2. profiler.

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Etymology

Origin of duplicating machine

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

Steinem remembers the days in which hand-outs and calls to action were made on a primitive duplicating machine called a mimeograph.

From BBC • Dec. 1, 2023

Indignation is not the only element in this series, which takes its style from Russian constructivism and its two-color scheme from the Risograph, a Japanese duplicating machine.

From Washington Post • Feb. 11, 2022

Back then, decades before the invention of home computers, Mr Watson produced newsletters called "Vegan News", laboriously running pages through a duplicating machine by hand and stapling them together.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2017

As a member of a Communist student organization, he slipped party fliers under apartment doors in the weeks after Hitler’s appointment as chancellor and at one point concealed an illegal duplicating machine under his bed.

From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2012

Sophie grabbed a leaflet and noted that it had been produced on a duplicating machine.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti