Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A photographic device for making positive or negative copies of graphic matter.
- noun A copy made with such a device.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun dated A
photocopy , especially one made by a Photostat machine - noun
positive (black on white) ornegative (white on black)reproduction of printed matter or artwork made on a photostat machine, which usesphotographic paper instead of atransparent negative, and uses aprism to render the paper negativereadable instead ofreversed . - verb To make such a photocopy.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word photostat.
Examples
-
July 28th, 2009 at 6: 11 pm howardx Says: your “source” had a blurry illegible photostat, hardly quality evidence of anything. why not link to the actual UN source?
Wonk Room » Dershowitz: Palestinians ‘Played A Significant Role In The Holocaust’ 2009
-
Indenture between George Washington and George Lee and his wife, DEC 17, 1754, photostat at Mount Vernon, in Flexner, GW Forge, 114; Freeman 2:1–5.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
-
The cover of that issue was based on a photostat of the first page of the Batman story inside, rather than new art.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
-
What I particularly love is the fact that they're both recognisable and unique, because although you borrow from Earth, you never try and make a photostat.
kateelliott: the Values of the Humanities, and SFF kateelliott 2009
-
Indenture between George Washington and George Lee and his wife, DEC 17, 1754, photostat at Mount Vernon, in Flexner, GW Forge, 114; Freeman 2:1–5.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
-
The cover of that issue was based on a photostat of the first page of the Batman story inside, rather than new art.
-
Indenture between George Washington and George Lee and his wife, DEC 17, 1754, photostat at Mount Vernon, in Flexner, GW Forge, 114; Freeman 2:1–5.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
-
Indenture between George Washington and George Lee and his wife, DEC 17, 1754, photostat at Mount Vernon, in Flexner, GW Forge, 114; Freeman 2:1–5.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
-
Other documents are more grim, such as a photostat o
-
Philip Marlowe always had a photostat of his license with him.
Red Sky Lament -- Edward Wright Bill Crider 2007
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.