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Photostat orig. U.S.|ˈfəʊtəʊstæt|
Also photostat.
[f. photo- 2 + -stat.]
a. The proprietary name of a kind of photocopying machine.
b. A copy made on such a machine; loosely, any photocopy. Also attrib.
1911Trade Marks Jrnl. 24 May 761 Photostat... Photographic cameras for making photographic copies of the pages of books, drawings, applications for life insurance and the like. Commercial Camera Company.., Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America; manufacturers. 1912Chambers's Jrnl. June 414/2 By means of the photostat a new filing method is possible. 1927Glasgow Herald 26 May 9 The reference to a subterranean photostat room is quite in accord with the general cinematographic nature of the raid... Such photostats exist nowadays in most large commercial undertakings. 1928P. S. Allen Let. 27 July (1939) 258, I should be glad to have the photostats (where does the word come from?) quickly. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Dec. 1028/1 The number of manuscripts known has increased..to eighty-four, of which photostats are now at the University of Chicago. 1932[see book-page s.v. book n. 19]. 1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 639/1 Photostat, trade-name for photographic apparatus (also for any print made by it) designed for rapidly copying, to the required size, flat originals on sensitised paper, and giving a negative image. 1959T. S. Eliot Elder Statesman ii. 57 I'm afraid I can't show you the originals; They're in my lawyer's safe. But I have photostats Which are quite as good, I'm told. 1961T. Landau Encycl. Librarianship (ed. 2) 121/1 The ‘Photostat’ has after many years become a household word among librarians and readers, and is indiscriminately used in describing any photographic reproduction of a document. It is in fact a trade name, and a ‘Photostat’ copy of a document is one produced by the ‘Photostat’ apparatus. 1964‘R. Macdonald’ in Manhunt May 142/1, I pulled out my photostat and slapped it down on the desk. 1975Guardian 25 Feb. 5/7 Inside the envelope there were simply photostats of correspondence. 1976Gloss. Documentation Terms (B.S.I.) 48 Photostat, a trade mark of Kodak Ltd. for photocopying cameras, chemicals and sensitive materials, the optical copies produced being right-reading.
Hence ˈphotostat v. trans., to photocopy; so ˈphotostat(t)ed ppl. a., ˈphotostat(t)ing vbl. n.; also photoˈstatic a., of, pertaining to, or produced by a Photostat or other photocopying machine.
1914Amer. Machinist 9 Apr. 642/1 A prism is used to ‘turn the corner’, making it more convenient than if the book or other object being ‘photostated’ had to be set up on edge. 1925M. R. Rinehart Red Lamp 139 One of the evening newspapers to-night prints a photostatic copy of the cipher found in our garage. 1932N. & Q. 5 Nov. 328/1 In corresponding about having the letter photostated we were informed of still another letter. 1937Mrs. P. Campbell Let. 25 Aug. in B. Shaw & Mrs. Campbell (1952) 314 He doesn't know I have had two photostated copies made of them. 1947[see eager a. 6]. 1957Amer. Speech XXXII. 57 Libraries quickly learned the uses they could make of photostatic machines. 1959H. Hamilton Answer in Negative i. 8 All our printing, and photo-statting of cuttings, is done by the Echo's dark-room. 1967N. Freeling Strike Out 141 They weren't going to open an embassy safe and photostat the contents. 1973R. Hill Ruling Passion iii. iii. 179 He passed out some photostatted sheets. 1976T. Allbeury Only Good German ix. 59 A photostated copy of an item in The Times. 1978Daily Tel. 5 May 14/6 Some might feel that for a rather smaller price the ‘Compact’ DNB, the full work with minute, photostated text,..might be a better buy. |