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
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 ● Jan. 6, 2020
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.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2018
For a long time after his recovery, he carried around a photostat of his healthy cardiogram to show friends.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the Smithsonian Institution in Washington one day last week, a swart Assyrian-born scholar named Dr. George W. Lamsa bent over a photostat of a large block of weathered stone covered with squiggly characters.
From Time Magazine Archive
With excitement and inspiration, he held another photostat out for Major Major to study.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
WMCA's ardent promotion department photostated two such puff-items, crayoned a big "SCOOP!" across the layout, ran it as an ad in the trade press.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had it photostated, translated by Major Velyien Ewart Henderson, and last week the University handed out the enemy's helpful manual to members of the Royal Canadian Air Force.
From Time Magazine Archive
The evidence was usually photostated in the office, quietly returned, the forged "writ" destroyed.
From Time Magazine Archive
After the convention, he selected some 200 items, had them photostated, and arranged them into his nugget book.
From Time Magazine Archive
Monty checked back in the astronomical handbook, and the photostated pages of the old almanac, then looked over his calculations.
From The Return by McGuire, John Joseph
The arrangements were for such clerical services as typing and photostating.
From Time Magazine Archive
Danish firm of Rosen-kilde & Bagger took on the task of photostating and photographing a whole series of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts.
From Time Magazine Archive
During the past year it had more than 250 accountants, lawyers and engineers in the field, ransacking files, reading letters, photostating documents, copying reports, questioning telephone officials.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was writing out 'official reports' and then photostating them.
From This Crowded Earth by Bloch, Robert
It contained a jumble of original and photostatted letters and reports from the British government, A.N.C. officials, the colonial administration, and Nkoloso himself.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 11, 2017
Mr. Elliott had the check photostatted, sent it back to California for remailing, set the FBI to watch for its cashing, and told people to watch him catch Bud Gearhart taking a bribe.
From Time Magazine Archive
She blinked, and looked away from the photostatted page; when she looked back, the letters were behaving themselves again.
From Omnilingual by Freas, Kelly
To obtain a copy of Armour & Co.'s 121-page statement, filed a few weeks ago, an interested investor would have to pay SEC $17.10 in photostatting.
From Time Magazine Archive
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