Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Carbon process \Car"bon process\ (Photog.) A printing process depending on the effect of light on bichromatized gelatin. Paper coated with a mixture of the gelatin and a pigment is called
carbon paper or
carbon tissue. This is exposed under a negative and the film is transferred from the paper to some other support and developed by washing (the unexposed portions being dissolved away). If the process stops here it is called single transfer; if the image is afterward transferred in order to give an unreversed print, the method is called double transfer.
Wiktionary
n. A sheet of paper with one of the faces impregnated with carbon, used to make carbon copy.
WordNet
n. a thin paper coated on one side with a dark waxy substance (often containing carbon); used to transfer characters from the original to an under sheet of paper [syn: carbon]
Wikipedia
Carbon paper (originally carbonic paper) was originally paper coated on one side with a layer of a loosely bound dry ink or pigmented coating, bound with wax, used for making one or more copies simultaneously with the creation of an original document when using a typewriter or a ballpoint pen. The manufacture of carbon paper was formerly the largest consumer of montan wax. In 1954 the Columbia Ribbon & Carbon Manufacturing Company filed a patent for what became known in the trade as solvent carbon paper: the coating was changed from wax-based to polymer-based. The manufacturing process changed from a hot-melt method to a solvent-applied coating or set of coatings. It was then possible to use polyester or other plastic film as a substrate, instead of paper, although the name remained carbon paper.
Usage examples of "carbon paper".
To quickly fill the enormous demand for the pads, Russian cryptographers likely chose the easiest course: carbon paper.
She said that following the advice of Perry Mason she had used fresh carbon paper so that it would be possible to read the terms of the forged will by holding the carbon papers to the light.
Virginia Baxter hesitated, then remembering Mason's instructions, went to the drawer of the desk, picked out some of the old legal paper bearing Delano Bannock's imprint, put in new carbon paper, racheted the paper into the typewriter and started typing.
Tenney has a peculiar job which consists of the following: she takes two sheets of onionskin paper and puts a sheet of carbon paper between them and rolls them into a typewriter.
Such as the fact that she wasn't allowed to use e-mail, photocopiers, scanners, or even manual typewriters and carbon paper.
One guy used to take off the dial, slip a piece of carbon paper under it, replace it—.
Making a club sandwich of three sheets of the coated stock and two of carbon paper, I inserted them in the machine and typed in the upper right-hand corner in caps: >.
She did, however, forge her husban's will by takin' a carbon paper and some of his old love letters and tracin' out a will, letter by letter.
When I sit down to begin a new novel, I type directly onto heavy bond paper, with carbon paper and second sheet attached.
So he cleaned the forged notes out of the file, extemporized a mask out of some carbon paper and ran out to show the woman who was waiting in the outer office that the murderer was a one-eyed man.
There had been a sheet of carbon paper in the pad upon which Doc had written his message.