mimeograph

[ mim-ee-uh-graf, -grahf ]

noun

1. a printing machine with an ink-fed drum, around which a cut waxed stencil is placed and which rotates as successive sheets of paper are fed into it.
2. a copy made from a mimeograph.

verb (used with object)

1. to duplicate (something) by means of a mimeograph.

Mimeograph

/ ˈmɪmɪəˌɡrɑːf; -ˌɡræf /

noun

1. an office machine for printing multiple copies of text or line drawings from an inked drum to which a cut stencil is fixed
2. a copy produced by this machine

verb

1. to print copies from (a prepared stencil) using this machine

Other Words From

• un·mime·o·graphed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of mimeograph¹

Formerly a trademark

Example Sentences

When I began, the mimeograph machine was kind of the height of technology.

From Fortune

He moved to one corner and began dragging out an old double-cylinder mimeograph.

From Project Gutenberg

So it also is in regard to the mimeograph, whose forerunner, the electric pen, was born of Edison's brain in 1877.

From Project Gutenberg

What are the differences in a hectograph, a mimeograph and multigraph?

From Project Gutenberg

The mimeograph was the same idea in a totally different form.

From Project Gutenberg

One would have thought that printing had never been invented, nor even the mimeograph.

From Project Gutenberg

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