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📄 Relating to photocopying 🖨️ A copy machine 🗂️ A photo copy
photostatic

photostatic

8.7
A copy of a document made by an old photocopy process
  • noun
  • /ˌfoʊtəˈstætɪk/
  • Archaic
translation icon : fotocopia
  • Please send me a photostatic copy of the report.

Examples

  • The lawyer requested a photostatic of the birth certificate for the records.

  • He found an old photostatic of the letter in his grandfather's files.

  • Before digital scanners, offices often used a photostatic to duplicate important documents.

  • I received photostatic documents from the archives yesterday.

  • The lawyer requested a photostatic of the birth certificate for the records.

  • He found an old photostatic of the letter in his grandfather's files.

  • Before digital scanners, offices often used a photostatic to duplicate important documents.

Synonyms

photocopy
vsphotostatic
19 1.0

A copy of a document or picture made by a copy machine

is the older photographic copy process used before modern office copying machines
photostat
vsphotostatic
  • Archaic
1 9.5

A copy of a paper document made by an old photocopier

is the broader photographic copy type including that machine and similar older processes

Surface Forms

photostatic singular
photostatics plural

Etymology

Photostatic comes from photo- 'light' and -static 'still', and it names a photographic copy made by a photostat machine. So a photostatic is simply a paper copy made by light, like an old-style photocopy.