photostat
Americannoun
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a camera for making facsimile copies of documents, drawings, etc., in the form of paper negatives on which the positions of lines, objects, etc., in the originals are maintained.
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a copy made with this camera.
verb (used with or without object)
noun
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a machine or process used to make quick positive or negative photographic copies of written, printed, or graphic matter
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any copy made by such a machine
verb
Other Word Forms
- photostater noun
- photostatic adjective
- photostatically adverb
- photostatter noun
Etymology
Origin of photostat
Formerly a trademark
Example Sentences
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The papers were copied by a photostat machine, which took pictures of them on photographic paper, which, in a photographic darkroom, was immersed, one page at a time, in a fluid called developer.
From The New Yorker
Signed: “Harry S Truman, a photostat copy, signed 11/27/65.”
From Fox News
Disney relaxed his pressure on his animators to advance the medium, allowing, essentially, as noted in Neal Gabler’s biography “Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination,” photostats of sketches rather than full layouts.
From Los Angeles Times
Born in 1928, Warhol prefigured the digital age by shaping a personal brand and using technology such as photostat machines, cameras and tape recorders to experiment and create.
Tennessee’s Public Records Act allows for “reasonable rules” on handling requests but also guarantees residents the right to “take extracts or make copies thereof, and to make photographs or photostats” of the records inspected.
From Seattle Times
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