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Hectograph

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An old printing machine that involved the transfer of an original, prepared with special inks, to a pan of gelatin or a gelatin pad pulled tight on a metal frame. historical
  2. 2
    duplicator consisting of a gelatin plate from which ink can be taken to make a copy wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To duplicate (a document) by this process. transitive

    "The menus are in hectographed handwriting."

  2. 2
    copy on a duplicator wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From hecto- (“hundred”) + -graph, so called because it would make about 100 copies.

Etymology 2

From hecto- (“hundred”) + -graph, so called because it would make about 100 copies.

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