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

Here, you can channel Jefferson and write on a polygraph duplicating machine, for instance, and create a secret code on a wheel cipher.

From Washington Post • May 1, 2018

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

In one scene a member of their group acquires a duplicating machine to help with printing leaflets.

From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2011

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