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

While a janitor at a cut-rate movie house, Big Wong buys a DVD duplicating machine and starts to thrive as a bootlegger, touting his “King of Peking Presents” discs.

From New York Times • Jul. 27, 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

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