mimeo
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- noun
- /ˈmɪmiˌoʊ/
- Archaic
:
mimeógrafo
- She sat down at her desk, sandwiched carbon paper between two fresh sheets of mimeo bond, and rolled them into the typewriter.
Examples
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16 Ministry of Agriculture. "Production Estimates of Some Major Crops in Ghana: 1970-1990," May 1991, mimeo.
Academic text (1991) -
Nick, one day I caught Mary stealing some ditto paper from the mimeo room.
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Well, he was the only kid I knew on the mimeo squad.
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-Maybe he can get you a mimeo.
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It's three reams of long-grain mimeo.
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PILAR takes the pile of mimeos and mail from her slot and turns to go.
Fiction book (1996) -
Wu, L. "Does Malthus Really Explain the Malthusian Trap?" Mimeo, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 2013.
Academic text (2018) -
See Patrick Low & Raed Safadi, Trade Policy and Pollution, World Bank Symposium on International Trade and the Environment (Nov. 21-22, 1991) (mimeo).
Academic text (1992) -
Pieron, M. (November 1980). From interaction analysis to research on teacher effectiveness: An overview of studies from the University of Liège. Unpublished manuscript, The Ohio State University, Mimeo.
Academic text (1992) -
The teacher used the mimeo to distribute copies of the test to all the students.
Synonyms
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1.0
A machine that makes text or pictures on paper from a computer
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A machine that makes copies of documents onto paper
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9.8
A machine that makes paper copies by pushing ink through a stencil
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A machine that makes exact copies of papers and drawings
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A machine that puts words and pictures onto paper
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A machine that makes many paper copies by pressing ink through a stencil
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A machine often used in offices and schools that makes copies by pressing ink through a stencil
A machine that copies papers by pressing ink through a stencil
How Modern
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mimeo comes from mimeograph, where the mime- part means 'imitate', like a 'mime' who copies actions. So a mimeo is the machine that makes copies or a copy made by that machine.