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mimeo.

mimeo. is the abbreviation of mimeograph.

Meaning of mimeograph

Noun

mimeograph (plural mimeographs)

  1. (historical) A machine for making printed copies using typed stencil, eventually superseded by photocopying.
    • 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...1910, Frank Lewis Dyer, Thomas Commerford Martin, chapter 27, in Edison, His Life and Inventions
  2. A copy produced by such a machine.

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Questions about mimeo.

What is mimeo. the abbreviation of?
Mimeo. is the abbreviation of mimeograph.

Words near mimeo. in the dictionary

  1. mimed
  2. mimelike
  3. mimeme
  4. mimemes
  5. mimeo
  6. mimeo.
  7. mimeoed
  8. mimeograph
  9. mimeographed
  10. mimeographer
  11. mimeographers

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