xerox
xerox Lexical Profile
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• noun
A photographic copy of printed or written material produced by a xerographic copying machine; a photocopy.
"Please make a xerox of the signed contract for our records before mailing the original."
A xerographic copying machine used to reproduce documents; a photocopier.
"The office xerox ran out of toner halfway through printing the conference handouts."
• verb
To reproduce a document or image by making a photocopy on a xerographic machine.
"Could you xerox these three pages of notes before the afternoon seminar begins?"
Word Nuance & Usage
Although originally a proprietary trademark of Xerox Corporation, the word is widely used in lowercase as a generic noun and verb for any photocopy or the act of photocopying; in formal writing, 'photocopy' is generally preferred.
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Word Origin & Etymology
Coined in 1948 as a trademark by Haloid Photographic Company (later Xerox Corporation), shortened from 'xerography,' which derives from the Ancient Greek 'xēros' (meaning 'dry') and '-graphia' (meaning 'writing'), in reference to the dry electrostatic copying process.