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Duplicator consisting of a gelatin plate from which ink can be taken to make a copy
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hectograph
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Wikipedia
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The hectograph or gelatin duplicator or jellygraph is a printing process that involves transfer of an original, prepared with special inks, to a pan of gelatin or a gelatin pad pulled tight on a metal frame. While the original use of the plate has faded, ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hectograph \Hec"to*graph\, n. [Gr. ? hundred + -graph.] A contrivance for multiple copying, by means of a surface of gelatin softened with glycerin. [Written also hectograph .]
WordNet
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n. duplicator consisting of a gelatin plate from which ink can be taken to make a copy [syn: heliotype ] v. copy on a duplicator; "hectograph the hand-outs"
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An old printing process that involves transfer of an original, prepared with special inks, to a pan of gelatin or a gelatin pad pulled tight on a metal frame. vb. To duplicate (a document) by this process.
Usage examples of hectograph.
All these ephemera were inscribed on paper by machines like the mimeograph or hectograph, machines that required infinite labor on the part of the user before an acceptable copy could be produced.
In addition to this flattening of affect, electronic media brings science fiction to its audience free of Science Fiction Culture, the history and view of science fiction laboriously hammered out over the last sixty or seventy years, created originally by dedicated fanatics wading up to their knees in gelatinous hectograph fluids.
The principal said that the absentee may appear shortly, and untied a package he had before him, taking out some hectograph sheets and began reading them.
The teacher of Confucius was folding and unfolding the hectograph sheet.
Selection and Preparation for Use, Carpentry, Veneering, Paper-Making, Bookbinding, Printing Rollers, Hectographs, Match Manufacture, Sandpaper, etc.
He gave Wilhelm several pages of blue hectographed script, stapled together, and told him to prepare for the screen test.
Since, however, thirty hectographed copies of it, and of the aim, material and method of the lesson, had already been circulated to the students, she had no option but to do the best she could.