Xerox
/ˈzɪərɒks
/ /ˈzɛrɒks/noun [mass noun] trademark
1A xerographic copying process: printing methods include acrylic printing and colour Xerox [as modifier]: a Xerox machine...
- On the ground, LynxOS is also used on HP LaserJet printers and Xerox copiers.
- The company employs 250 technicians to repair Xerox photocopiers and other equipment in offices in Melbourne and Sydney.
- Jack had Xerox copies of many of his stories in the pencil phase, and the TwoMorrows company is now engaged in a most worthwhile project, which is to preserve and restore those Xeroxes.
1.1 [count noun] A copy made using the Xerox process.In brief, India would be a Xerox copy of Gujarat, India would be co-opted as part of Gujarat....
- Apparently, it has made a big stir within the company, with Xerox copies proliferating everywhere.
- It makes the images look rough, imperfect, like color Xeroxes, but larger.
Synonyms
photocopy, copy, carbon copy, duplicate, replica, reproduction, reprint, facsimile, mimeograph, mimeo;
transcript
trademark photostat
informal dupe
1.2 [count noun] A machine for copying by xerography.A friend and colleague at the university has been passing around a poster that he made on a Xerox machine....
- A fanzine is basically a homemade cut-and-paste mag duplicated on a Xerox machine.
- Prestige Business has become the number one dealer of Xerox copy machines.
verb (xeroxes, xeroxing, xeroxed) (xerox) [with object]
Copy (a document) by the Xerox process: I shall have the typescript xeroxed today (as adjective xeroxed) a xeroxed newspaper article...
- On these occasions, the article has to be xeroxed and laid out on the desk for him.
- So don't just xerox every page and try to perfectly replicate every single example.
- She would have xeroxed articles and photographs, marking particular paragraphs and details.
Synonyms
photocopy, copy, duplicate, replicate, make a replica of, make a facsimile of, reproduce, photostat, mimeograph, mimeo, print, run off
trademark make a Xerox of
Origin
1950s: an invented name, based on xerography.
elixir from Late Middle English:
The root of both elixir and Xerox is Greek xēros ‘dry’. Elixir came into English via Arabic al-'iksīr, from Greek xīrion ‘powder for drying wounds’. It was first used in alchemy, as the name of a sought-after preparation that was supposed to change ordinary metals into gold, and one that could prolong life indefinitely (the elixir of life). Xerox, a name for a copying process that uses dry powder, dates from the early 1950s. See also chemist