xerox

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  1. a duplicator (trade mark Xerox) that copies graphic matter by the action of light on an electrically charged photoconductive insulating surface in which the latent image is developed with a resinous powder
  2. a copy made by a xerographic printer
  3. reproduce by xerography

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  • Collect things that have teachers' signatures on them Paste them all down on a sheet of white paper and either xerox or print up a bunch of copies.
  • - Eric Barba: "Since our goal was not to create Benjamin's performance in animation, but rather to 'xerox' Brad Pitt's performance onto this CG head, we had to develop a brand new process that we call emotion capture." —  fxguide.com
  • You need to xerox, not desk jet and not laser print, something - a photo of yours, a piece of your art, something else that catches your eye. —  Women, Art, Life: Weaving It All Together
  • That early existing organisms evolved a way to manufacture (xerox?) multiple copies of a DNA string (precursor virus?) and even to have such particles protected by very resiliant —  PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
  • This kind of thing happens a lot in trademark law, which is why "xerox" is now commonly used as a verb. —  PalmInfocenter
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