Photostat
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- noun
- /ˈfoʊtəˌstæt/
- Archaic
:
fotostato
- We can have photographs of the notebook, and photostats of the pages in Rigas' own handwriting!
Examples
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Look, have photostats made of all the court records.
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Take these down for photostats.
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I show you photostats of two cashier's checks drawn on the Flagship National Bank, made payable to the Committee for a Better Miami.
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There are text edits on the page, production notes, white-out, miscellaneous dirt, and most pages were cut at the corners when removed from the photostat machine.
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This is a Photostat copy of a letter to our College of Arms in the City of London with the request they try to establish de Bleuchamp's claim to the title, and Sir Hilary Bray has replied to Gumbold suggesting that he should meet de Bleuchamp in person.
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The researcher used a photostat machine to create copies of the historical documents quickly.
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To preserve the original manuscript, she made several photostat copies for the archives.
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He collected photostat copies of the important records to ensure they were safely stored.
Synonyms
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A machine that makes exact copies of papers and drawings
A machine that makes quick paper copies of documents
An old machine used to copy documents before modern photocopiers
Compounds
How Modern
Surface Forms
Morphology
Photostat = photo + stat
The element photo- is recognizable, but the second element stat is not a transparent English base, so the machine term is not readily predictable from its parts.
Etymology
Photostat comes from photo- meaning 'light' and -stat, which is like static and means 'standing' or 'fixed'. So a Photostat is a machine that uses light to make a fixed copy of a document.