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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Xerox

1952, trademark taken out by Haloid Co. of Rochester, N.Y., for a copying device, from xerography. The verb is first attested 1965, from the noun, despite strenuous objection from the Xerox copyright department. Related: Xeroxed; Xeroxing.

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xerox

n. 1 (context slang North America English) A photocopy. 2 A photocopier. vb. (context slang North America English) To make a paper copy or copies by means of a photocopier.

WordNet
xerox
  1. n. a copy made by the xerox process [syn: xerox copy]

  2. duplicator that copies graphic matter by the action of light on an electrically charged photoconductive insulating surface in which the latent image is developed with a resinous powder [syn: xerographic copier, Xerox machine]

  3. v. reproduce by xerography [syn: photocopy, run off]

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Xerox

Xerox Corporation is an American global corporation that sells business services and document technology products. Xerox is headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut (moved from Stamford, Connecticut in October 2007), though its largest population of employees is based around Rochester, New York, the area in which the company was founded. The company purchased Affiliated Computer Services for $6.4 billion in early 2010. As a large developed company, it is consistently placed in the list of Fortune 500 companies.

Researchers at Xerox and its Palo Alto Research Center invented several important elements of personal computing, such as the desktop metaphor GUI, the computer mouse and desktop computing. These concepts were frowned upon by the then board of directors, who ordered the Xerox engineers to share them with Apple technicians. The concepts were adopted by Apple and, later, Microsoft. With the help of these innovations, Apple and Microsoft came to dominate the personal computing revolution of the 1980s, whereas Xerox was not a major player. Xerox also invented Ethernet.

Usage examples of "xerox".

With a dominant share of the booming office copier market, Xerox was growing fast and was very profitable.

Xerox would transcend its current business of being the leading office copier company to become the leading office equipment supplier of information-intensive products.

Xerox had little apparent difficulty dealing with even high degrees of technical uncertainty when, for example, the fruits of its projects could be directly applied to its copier and printer markets.

Xerox needed to make its own toner, its own copier, its own light lens, and its own feeding and sorting subsystems in order to deliver high-volume, high-quality xerography to its customers.

Xerox copier, the Model 914, provides a great illustration of the value of a business model and how hard it can be for successful companies to identify a good one.

Xerox organized its value chain to deliver completely configured copier systems, sold through its own direct sales organization, and comprehensive maintenance services, provided by its own technicians.

As the rapid rate of growth of copier revenues began to slow at the end of the 1960s, McColough knew that Xerox would need to expand its business into new areas to maintain its historic rate of growth.

The strong internal logic of deep vertical integration, which worked so well for Xerox in the copier and printer business, cast a long shadow over the computer technologies developed at PARC.

Xerox commercialized its PARC technologies through its copier and printer business model and lacked effective processes to create different business models for technologies that did not fit with that business model.

One was a consumer advocate for CBS television, a former runner-up to Miss North Carolina in the Miss America contest, thirty years old, rather puckishly committed to a variation on the original Ann-Margret coiffure which, given all proper due, admirably suited her auburn hair, opinionated, contentious beyond belief, and directly responsible for a Xerox price rollback that had cost the firm nearly a quarter of a million dollars.

He took out the stapled Xerox copies of the fake margin account with Shutts, Gaylor, Stith and Company.

Lo Manto nodded and stared around the large room, filing cabinets, printers, and Xerox machines eating up huge chunks of space.

Piles of books, periodicals, offprints, Xeroxed sheets of stapled or loose paper, folded or rolled graphs and charts and tables and spreadsheets.

Sean Lillick copying sheets of music on the Xerox machine near the paralegal pen.

Lowe, she could be less easily asked to Xerox sheet music or chauffeur stranded members, or bake cakes for Sales or sew concert robes or create nametags or centerpieces or otherwise be volunteered to perform those time-consuming and innately female tasks which prettified or cushioned or diverted, which perhaps might even be said to civilize, but really, these days it hardly seemed important to her to spend several evenings making fifty holiday ribbon nametag rosettes to hand out to the audience at the Restport Nursing Home concert.