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photostats

photostats is the plural of photostat.

Meaning of photostat

Noun

photostat (plural photostats)

  1. (dated) 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)
  2. (historical) The machine (essentially, a special camera) on which such a copy is made.
    • Near-synonyms: photocopier, copier (both contextually synonymous); xerographer, xerox (broadly synonymous)

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Questions about photostats

What is photostats the plural of?
Photostats is the plural of photostat.

Words near photostats in the dictionary

  1. photostatic
  2. photostatically
  3. photostating
  4. photostationary
  5. photostatistics
  6. photostats
  7. photostatted
  8. photostatter
  9. photostatters
  10. photostatting
  11. photosterilization

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Adapted from Wiktionary: photostats (page history and authors); photostat (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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