photostat
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]photostat (plural photostats)
- (dated) A photocopy, especially one made by a Photostat machine.
- 2000, Kamila Shamsie, Salt and Saffron, Bloomsbury, page 154:
- The next morning […] her suitcase was gone and a photostat of a wedding licence was on her bed, the print smudged here and there.
- (Malaysia, Philippines) A photocopy made using a photocopier.
- Synonym: xerox
- Coordinate term: mimeograph
- 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 of a transparent negative, and uses a prism to render the paper negative readable instead of reversed.
Verb
[edit]photostat (third-person singular simple present photostats, present participle photostatting or photostating, simple past and past participle photostatted or photostated)
- (transitive) To make such a photocopy of.
- 2008, Jonathan Nasaw, Fear Itself:
- […] as soul-deadeningly, eye-strainingly, sleep-inducingly boring as going through fourteen file boxes of sloppily photostatted bank records.
French
[edit]Noun
[edit]photostat m (plural photostats)
Further reading
[edit]- “photostat”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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