mimeographs
mimeographs is the plural of mimeograph.
mimeographs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of mimeograph.
Meaning of mimeograph
Noun
mimeograph (plural mimeographs)
- A machine for making printed copies using typed stencil, eventually superseded by photocopying.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
- Synonyms:
- stencil duplicator
- A copy produced by such a machine.
Questions about mimeographs
- What is mimeographs the plural of?
- Mimeographs is the plural of mimeograph.
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