photostat
photostat noun: a (non-xerographic) photocopy made using a Photostat machine; (loosely) any photocopy, even a xerographic one.
Noun
photostat (plural photostats)
- A (non-xerographic) photocopy made using a Photostat machine; (loosely) any photocopy, even a xerographic one.
- Near-synonyms: photocopy, xerox, xerograph, copy (all broadly synonymous)
- This book is the culmination of a six-year detective hunt among local records, archives, and private collections in England and in Massachusetts. I do not recommend a similar study to any student who has a faint heart, lack of patience, inability to travel, or poor eyesight. Such a study demands...1963, Sumner Chilton Powell, “Preface”, in Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town, Wesleyan University Press
- The machine (essentially, a special camera) on which such a copy is made.
- Near-synonyms: photocopier, copier (both contextually synonymous); xerographer, xerox (broadly synonymous)
- Synonyms:
- photocopier, copier, xerographer, xerox
Verb
photostat (third-person singular simple present photostats, present participle photostating or photostatting, simple past and past participle photostated or photostatted)
- To make such a photocopy.
- Near-synonyms: photocopy, xerox, xerograph, copy (all broadly synonymous)
- […] as soul-deadeningly, eye-strainingly, sleep-inducingly boring as going through fourteen file boxes of sloppily photostatted bank records.2008, Jonathan Nasaw, Fear Itself
photostat meaning in Tamil and Kannada
photostat in Tamil
- ஒளிப்படமெடுக்கப்பட்ட, ஒளிப்படப்பிரதி, ஒளிப்படம்பிரதிசெய்கருவி, ஒளிப்பட நகல், ஒளிநகலி
photostat in Kannada
- ಛಾಯಾಪ್ರತಿ, ಫೋಟೋಪ್ರತಿ, ನಕಲು ಪ್ರತಿ ತಯಾರಿಸು
Examples of photostat in a sentence
- In addition to the skill of handling a photostat machine, one should know about photographic processes in general and a certain amount about cartography, particularly for the period studied.1963, Sumner Chilton Powell, “Preface”, in Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town, Wesleyan University Press:
- The next morning […] her suitcase was gone and a photostat of a wedding licence was on her bed, the print smudged here and there.2000, Kamila Shamsie, Salt and Saffron, Bloomsbury, page 154:
Synonyms of photostat
Forms of photostat
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | photostats |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | photostats |
| present participle | photostating |
| present participle | photostatting |
| past participle | photostated |
| past | photostated |
| past participle | photostatted |
| past | photostatted |
Origin of photostat
A genericization from the trade name of one of the earliest commercially successful types of photocopier, a pre-xerography type. Xerography displaced it in the 1960s and 1970s; since then the relics of it are historical curiosities. More in Wikipedia at Photostat machine.
Words formed from photostat
Questions about photostat
- What does photostat mean?
- Photostat means a (non-xerographic) photocopy made using a Photostat machine; (loosely) any photocopy, even a xerographic one.
- What is photostat in Tamil?
- Photostat in Tamil is ஒளிப்படமெடுக்கப்பட்ட, ஒளிப்படப்பிரதி, ஒளிப்படம்பிரதிசெய்கருவி. See Photostat meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use photostat in a sentence?
- In addition to the skill of handling a photostat machine, one should know about photographic processes in general and a certain amount about cartography, particularly for the period studied.
- What part of speech is photostat?
- Photostat can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of photostat?
- The plural of photostat is photostats.
Words near photostat in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: photostat (page history and authors); photostat (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); photostat (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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