xerox

  • 21Xerox{™} — a large US company that produces copying and printing machines, as well as scanners (= devices that copy documents, etc. onto a computer screen) and faxes. Its name is based on the process of ‘xerography’ (meaning ‘dry writing’) which the company …

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  • 22Xerox — UK [ˈzɪərɒks] / US [ˈzɪˌrɑks] Word forms Xerox : singular Xerox plural Xeroxes trademark a copy of a written document or image that is made with a Xerox machine …

    English dictionary

  • 23Xerox — Rank Xerox, Inc. Kopierer und Computerhardwarehersteller, u.a. Ursprung des Ethernet http://www.xerox.com/ …

    Acronyms

  • 24xerox — [20] Greek xērós meant ‘dry’ (it may be the ultimate source of English elixir, and is perhaps distantly related to English serene and serenade). From it was derived in the 1940s the term xerography, which denotes a process of photographic… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 25Xerox — Rank Xerox, Inc. Kopierer und Computerhardwarehersteller, u.a. Ursprung des Ethernet (http://www.xerox.com/) …

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  • 26xerox — [20] Greek xērós meant ‘dry’ (it may be the ultimate source of English elixir, and is perhaps distantly related to English serene and serenade). From it was derived in the 1940s the term xerography, which denotes a process of photographic… …

    Word origins

  • 27xerox — transitive verb Etymology: from Xerox Date: 1965 1. to copy on a xerographic copier 2. to make (a copy) on a xerographic copier …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 28xerox — 1. noun /ˈzɛ.ɹɒks,ˈziːə.r ɑks/ A photocopy. Hand me that xerox, would you? 2. verb /ˈzɛ.ɹɒks,ˈziːə.r ɑks/ To make a paper copy or copies by means of a photocopier. I xeroxed the report for all the people at the meeting …

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  • 29Xerox — noun a) , a global document management company. Our new photocopying machine is a Xerox. b) , the former name of the Palo Alto Research Company, a research and development company founded in 1970 in Palo Alto, best known for the invention of the… …

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  • 30Xerox™ — noun Xerox™ is used before these nouns: ↑copy …

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