mimeograph en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (US) audio
Etymology
A genericization from a trade name coined by A. B. Dick in 1889. From μῖμος (mîmos) + -γράφος (-gráphos); by surface analysis, mimeo + -graph (but diachronically, mimeo came from mimeograph, not the reverse).
Meanings
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(historical) A machine for making printed copies using typed stencil, eventually superseded by photocopying.
So it also is in regard to the mimeograph, whose forerunner, the electric pen, was born of Edison's brain in 1877. He had been long impressed by the desirability of the rapid production of copies of written documents, and, as we have seen by a previous chapter, he invented the electric pen for this purpose, only to improve upon it later with a more desirable device
1910, Frank Lewis Dyer, Thomas Commerford Martin, chapter 27, in Edison, His Life and Inventions:The old “work horse” of the office, the mimeograph, was a starred performer at the National Business Show, which was recently held at the New York Coliseum. Although glamour equipment such as the electronic computers have had most of the headlines in recent years, the mimeograph machine is still grinding out billions of copies of material a year.
1956 November 8, Alexander R. Hammer, “Duplicator Still The ‘Work Horse’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- A copy produced by such a machine.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| mimeographs | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
xerox · photocopier · hectograph · ditto machine · photostat · photostat · spirit duplicator · xerographer · xerograph · photocopy · xerox · ditto · hectograph
Deriveds
mimeographist · mimeographic · mimeographically · mimeographical · mimeography · mimeographer
Hypernyms
Relateds
homeograph · homeography · mimeo · mimeo
Synonyms
Translations (18)
nl mimeograaf (machine for making copies) · ja 謄写版 (machine for making copies) · cmn 油印機 /油印机 (machine for making copies) · pl powielacz (machine for making copies) · tl limwaran (machine for making copies) · es mimeógrafo (machine for making copies) · fr miméographe (machine for making copies) · fr machine à polycopier (machine for making copies) · pt mimeógrafo (machine for making copies) · fi vahasmonistuskone (machine for making copies) · da duplikator (machine for making copies) · bg циклостил (machine for making copies) · it ciclostile (machine for making copies) · fi vahaskopiokone (machine for making copies) · es ciclostilo (machine for making copies) · nl stencilmachine (machine for making copies) · ru рота́тор (machine for making copies) · fr polycopieuse (machine for making copies)