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(trademark) a duplicating machine that makes quick positive or negative copies directly on the surface of prepared paper
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photostat
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1909, a type of copying machine (trademark Commercial Camera Company, Providence, R.I.) whose name became a generic noun and verb (1914) for "photocopy;" from photo- + stat .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context dated English) A photocopy, especially one made by a (w: Photostat machine) 2 positive (black on white) or negative (white on black) reproduction of printed matter or artwork made on a photostat machine, which uses photographic paper instead ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a photocopy made on a Photostat machine a duplicating machine that makes quick positive or negative copies directly on the surface of prepared paper [syn: Photostat machine ] v. make a copy by means of a Photostat device
Usage examples of photostat.
With excitement and inspiration, he held another photostat out for Major Major to study.
Rudy Flint standing in front of my chair holding the photostat of my license in his big paw.
He was sitting on the couch, turning the photostat of my license in his big paws and staring at it.
I took out my wallet, slipped out the plasticized photostat of my license and put it in front of him on the desk.
I took the plastic-coated photostat of my license out of my wallet and showed it to her.
With the photostat beside the doorknob, Cardona made a magnified comparison.
And when Dillon made no move, just stood there blocking the door, delved inside his jacket and produced two photostat images and held them up.
If you bribed a traffic-court clerk two years ago to bury a drunk driving charge, the Fixer might suddenly confront you with a photostat of the citation you thought had been burned.
Today Dominic has positively identified the photostat as being one of the kidnappers, known to him as Peter.
Trumbull: a photostat of what Madame Karitska found among your junk early this morning.
Jonathan turned on the desk light and tilted back the green glass shade, then unfolded the photostat across the cleared surface of his desk.
He took a number of photostats out of a large red expansion envelope he had been hiding conspicuously beneath a leather flight jacket painted garishly with pictures of airplanes flying through orange bursts of flak and with orderly rows of little bombs signifying fifty-five combat missions flown.
That was when I wrote the department about your photostats, but it was like throwing a stone down a well.
It was typed in Cyrillic capitals and contained photostats of letters and transcripts of tapped phone calls.
He produced a number of Photostats, and each was a copy of the letter.