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mimeograph

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

noun

  1. 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.
  2. a copy made from a mimeograph.


verb (used with object)

  1. to duplicate (something) by means of a mimeograph.

Mimeograph

/ ˈmɪmɪəˌɡrɑːf; -ˌɡræf /

noun

  1. an office machine for printing multiple copies of text or line drawings from an inked drum to which a cut stencil is fixed
  2. a copy produced by this machine
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


verb

  1. to print copies from (a prepared stencil) using this machine
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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  • un·mime·o·graphed adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of mimeograph1

Formerly a trademark
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Example Sentences

When I began, the mimeograph machine was kind of the height of technology.

From Fortune

He moved to one corner and began dragging out an old double-cylinder mimeograph.

So it also is in regard to the mimeograph, whose forerunner, the electric pen, was born of Edison's brain in 1877.

What are the differences in a hectograph, a mimeograph and multigraph?

The mimeograph was the same idea in a totally different form.

One would have thought that printing had never been invented, nor even the mimeograph.

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