mimeograph
a machine for making copies of written, drawn, or typewritten matter by means of a stencil placed around a drum containing ink
Origin of mimeograph
from former trademark from Classical Greek mimeomai, I imitate from mimos (see mime) + -graph- to make copies of on such a machine
- to make (copies) on such a machine
mimeograph
noun
- A duplicator that makes copies of written, drawn, or typed material from a stencil that is fitted around an inked drum.
- A copy made by this method of duplication.
verb
mim·e·o·graphed, mim·e·o·graph·ing, mim·e·o·graphsverb
transitiveTo make (copies) on a mimeograph.
verb
intransitiveTo use a mimeograph.
Origin of mimeograph
Originally a trademarkmimeograph
Noun
(plural mimeographs)
- An invention of Thomas A. Edison, a machine for making printed copies, using typed stencil, ubiquitous until the 1990s when photocopying became competitive (if not cheaper), and considerably easier to use.
- 1910 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 "” Frank Lewis Dyer & Thomas Commerford Martin, Edison, His Life and Inventions, Chapter 27.
Verb
(third-person singular simple present mimeographs, present participle mimeographing, simple past and past participle mimeographed)
- To make mimeograph copies.
- 1919 Even the ultra-respectable "Evening Transcript", organ of the Brahmins of culture, was down for $144 for typing, mimeographing and sending out "dope" to the country press. "” Upton Sinclair, The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation, Book 4.
Origin
Coined by A.B. Dick in 1889 and originally a trade name.Greek mimos, combining form mimeo + -graph
