Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A machine or device that reproduces printed or digital material.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who duplicates anything; one who makes duplicates.
- noun A machine or other coutrivance for making duplicates, as of a writing or drawing or the like.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A device that
reproduces pages of typed, printed or written material; acopier .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun apparatus that makes copies of typed, written or drawn material
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Examples
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Most of the divers thought I was a little fanatical about my two projects -- information storage and what I called the duplicator library -- mint condition originals of any equipment we might need.
Timegod's World Modesitt, L. E. 1992
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In Britain the machine was known as a duplicator or a Gestetner machine.
Give it a couple shakes… « Musings from an overworked translator 2009
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 The Legion gave them to Superboy by using a "duplicator" to "recreate" each "particle" in a Legionnaire's body and shrink it, to make "an almost living likeness" of each of them.
Into the back issue box #37 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2007
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No, I have to purchase a copier that is a combination scanner, fax machine, printer, and duplicator — and none of the extra features are ever used.
New/More Tech Isn’t Always Best « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009
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No, I have to purchase a copier that is a combination scanner, fax machine, printer, and duplicator — and none of the extra features are ever used.
January « 2009 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009
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The awesomely, Sovietly square Nexcopy USB200PC key duplicator will flash 20 USB sticks at once from a master key.
Boing Boing 2008
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Looking to get a blu ray duplicator (independant from computer) for about 700.
Why aren’t we excited by Blu-ray? | Lifehacker Australia 2008
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It also includes a boot manager, a disk duplicator and a backup manager.
Download Paragon Partition Manager For Free Today | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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Since you've identified yourself as an Enemy Of The Administration (tm), the the NSA's auto-copy posting duplicator is archiving your posts.
Illinois GOP Sees Real Chance Of Swiping Obama's Senate Seat 2009
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At the heart of Iran's Islamic Revolution was a stencil duplicator and a tape recorder.
Melody Moezzi: Hey DJ Rafsanjani, Play Us Some Ayatollah Khomeini 2009
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October 9, 2008
bilby commented on the word duplicator
"We prefer duplicators to mimeos even though the price is a little higher. They work faster, are easier to operate and print clearer leaflets. The Gestener Silk Screen Duplicator is the best bet. It turns out stuff almost as good as offset printing. You can do 10 thousand sheets an hour in an assortment of colors."
- Abbie Hoffman, 'Steal This Book', 1971.
February 18, 2009