Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hectograph, manifold-writer, or other apparatus or device for the mechanical production of a number of copies of a written or printed document.
- noun The process or operation of reduplicating documents by the agency of such apparatus or methods: same as
papyrography . - To execute or produce by means of a papyrograph.
- noun In photography, a photographic positive printed on paper resembling parchment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Obsolescent An apparatus for multiplying writings, drawings, etc., in which a paper stencil, formed by writing or drawing with corrosive ink, is used. The word is also used of other means of multiplying copies of writings, drawings, etc. See
copygraph ,hectograph ,manifold .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An early
apparatus forreproducing documents by means of apaper stencil andcorrosive ink .
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Notes printed by it are far better and less costly than those printed by papyrograph.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882 Various
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