carbon-copy

A form of carbon copy — A copy produced in an alternated stack of ordinary sheets of paper and carbon papers. The pressure applied on the top sheet (by a pen or typewriter) causes every carbon paper to release its carbon cover, thus reproducing the writing on the subjacent layers of paper.

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Meanings

nouncarbon-copy (plural carbon-copies)

plural carbon-copies

  1. alternativeAlternative form of carbon copy.

    Nor does television screen violence provoke nationwide carbon-copy murders.

    1978, Kenneth Roberts, Contemporary Society and the Growth of Leisure, →ISBN, page 51
verbcarbon-copy (third-person singular simple present carbon-copies, present participle carbon-copying, simple past and past participle carbon-copied)

present singular third person carbon-copies · participle present carbon-copying · participle past carbon-copied · past carbon-copied

  1. alternativeAlternative form of carbon copy.
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