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Xerox, n.|ˈzɪərɒks, ˈzɛrɒks|
Also xerox.
[Invented word f. xerography.]
A proprietary name for photocopiers (see quots. 1952, 1953); also used loosely (attrib. and absol.) to denote any photocopy.
1952Trade Marks Jrnl. 19 Aug. 748/2 Xerox... Electro⁓photographic copying machines and apparatus for fusing powder images onto paper in connection with electro⁓photographic copying machines. The Haloid Company. 1953Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 12 May 327/2 The Haloid Company, Rochester, N.Y... Xerox for electro⁓photographic copying machines, cameras, plates... Claims, use since June 22, 1949. 1966Economist 15 Oct. 299/3 In most American offices executives instruct subordinates to ‘make me a Xerox of this report’ rather than ‘make me a copy of it’. 1972M. Williams Inside Number 10 xi. 289 The Rank Organization in Brighton installed a xerox copying machine in the office and we also had an electric duplicating machine. 1975D. Lodge Changing Places iii. 128, I enclose a Xerox of the anonymous letter. 1976M. Machlin Pipeline xxvii. 317 It had appeared in Xerox form on bulletin boards in most of the administrative offices of Denali. 1977M. French Women's Room (1978) iii. 272 They had a terrible fight one evening in the Xerox room of the library. 1979Author XC. 157 Reprography..—xerox photocopying. 1980London Rev. Bks. 15 May 8/3 How will the industry cope with new technologies, like tele-ordering, new EEC copyright complications and piracy both in the Middle East and (as we all guiltily know) in every xerox room in the British Isles? 1981P. Roth Zuckerman Unbound 52 Virtually all they had left in common was the rented Xerox machine.
fig.1979Nature 15 Mar. 209/3 The set is often referred to as ‘the first generation of elementary particles’... Nature seems to have made xerox copies: a second generation (µ- ν′ and cs) and possibly a third. |