mimeograph

[ mim-ee-uh-graf, -grahf ]

/ ˈmɪm i əˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf /

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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.

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Origin of mimeograph

Formerly a trademark

OTHER WORDS FROM mimeograph

un·mim·e·o·graphed, adjective

Words nearby mimeograph

Mimas, Mimba, mimbar, mime, mimeo, mimeograph, mimesis, mimetic, mimetism, mimetite, Mimi

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How to use mimeograph in a sentence

When I began, the mimeograph machine was kind of the height of technology.
Gloria Steinem: ‘I’ve never seen this much activism in my life’|ehinchliffe|October 26, 2020|Fortune
He moved to one corner and began dragging out an old double-cylinder mimeograph.
Police Your Planet|Lester del Rey
So it also is in regard to the mimeograph, whose forerunner, the electric pen, was born of Edison's brain in 1877.
Edison, His Life and Inventions|Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
What are the differences in a hectograph, a mimeograph and multigraph?
Mechanical Devices in the Home|Edith Louise Allen

The mimeograph was the same idea in a totally different form.
Steam Steel and Electricity|James W. Steele
One would have thought that printing had never been invented, nor even the mimeograph.
Six Major Prophets|Edwin Emery Slosson

British Dictionary definitions for mimeograph

Mimeograph

/ (ˈmɪmɪəˌɡrɑːf, -ˌɡræf) /

noun

trademark 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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