photocopier

[foh-tuh-kop-ee-er]

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noun

any electrically operated machine using a photographic method, as the electrostatic process, for making instant copies of written, drawn, or printed material.

RELATED WORDS

copier, duplicator, Xerox

Origin of photocopier

First recorded in 1930–35; photo- + copier

Also called copier, copy machine, photocopying machine.

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Contemporary Examples of photocopier

He strokes the photocopier; he adores the machine, the way it flashes like lightning as it works, the way it whirs and hums.
An Excerpt from Between the Assassinations
Aravind Adiga
June 10, 2009

British Dictionary definitions for photocopier

photocopier

noun

an instrument using light-sensitive photographic materials to reproduce written, printed, or graphic work

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Word Origin and History for photocopier

1934, agent noun from photocopy (v.).