What does mimeograph mean?

Definitions for mimeograph
ˈmɪm i əˌgræf, -ˌgrɑfmimeo·graph

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. mimeograph, mimeo, mimeograph machine, Roneo, Roneographverb

    a rotary duplicator that uses a stencil through which ink is pressed (trade mark Roneo)

  2. mimeograph, mimeoverb

    print copies from (a prepared stencil) using a mimeograph

    "She mimeographed the syllabus"

Wiktionary

  1. mimeographnoun

    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.

Wikipedia

  1. Mimeograph

    A mimeograph machine (often abbreviated to mimeo, sometimes called a stencil duplicator) is a low-cost duplicating machine that works by forcing ink through a stencil onto paper. The process is called mimeography, and a copy made by the process is a mimeograph. Mimeographs, along with spirit duplicators and hectographs, were common technologies for printing small quantities of a document, as in office work, classroom materials, and church bulletins. Early fanzines were printed by mimeograph because the machines and supplies were widely available and inexpensive. Beginning in the late 1960s and continuing into the 1970s, photocopying gradually displaced mimeographs, spirit duplicators, and hectographs. For even smaller quantities, up to about five, a typist would use carbon paper.

ChatGPT

  1. mimeograph

    A mimeograph is a printing machine that produces copies of a typed, written, or drawn material by pressing it onto paper through an ink-coated stencil. It was widely used in offices, schools, and other institutions before the prevalence of modern digital printers and photocopying machines.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Mimeographnoun

    an autographic stencil copying device invented by Edison

Wikidata

  1. Mimeograph

    The stencil duplicator or mimeograph machine is a low-cost printing press that works by forcing ink through a stencil onto paper. The mimeograph process should not be confused with the spirit duplicator process. Mimeographs, along with spirit duplicators and hectographs, were a common technology in printing small quantities, as in office work, classroom materials, and church bulletins. Early fanzines were printed in this technology, because it was widespread and cheap. In the late 1960s, mimeographs, spirit duplicators, and hectographs were gradually displaced by photocopying and offset printing.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Mimeograph

    mim′ē-ō-graf, n. an apparatus in which a thin fibrous paper coated with paraffin is used as a stencil for reproducing copies of written or printed matter.—v.t. to reproduce such by this means. [Gr. mimeisthai, to imitate, graphein, to write.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of mimeograph in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of mimeograph in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of mimeograph in a Sentence

  1. David Dean Rusk:

    Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state.

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Translations for mimeograph

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  • mimeografiar, ciclostilo, mimeógrafoSpanish
  • polycopier, machine à polycopierFrench
  • mimeografareItalian
  • 謄写版Japanese
  • mimeograaf, stencilen, stencilmachineDutch
  • கையெழுத்து அல்லது தட்டெழுத்துப் பிரதிகளில் இருந்து பல பிரதிகள் எடுக்கும் சாதனம்Tamil
  • 滚筒油印机Chinese

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