Mimeograph
['mɪmɪəgrɑːf] or ['mɪmɪəɡræf]
Definition
(noun.) a rotary duplicator that uses a stencil through which ink is pressed (trade mark Roneo).
(verb.) print copies from (a prepared stencil) using a mimeograph; 'She mimeographed the syllabus'.
Inputed by Elvira--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) An autographic stencil copying device invented by Edison.
Inputed by Jules
Definition
n. an apparatus in which a thin fibrous paper coated with paraffin is used as a stencil for reproducing copies of written or printed matter.—v.t. to reproduce such by this means.
Inputed by Alisa
Examples
- It is called the 'Mimeograph. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The mimeograph employs a pointed stylus, used as in writing with a lead-pencil, which is moved over a kind of tough prepared paper placed on a finely grooved steel plate. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- So it also is in regard to the mimeograph, whose forerunner, the electric pen, was born of Edison's brain in 1877. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Typist: Ora