Carbon paper is thin paper with a dark substance on one side. You use it to make copies of letters, bills, and other papers.
The drawing is transferred onto the wood by means of carbon paper.
carbon paper in British English
noun
1.
a thin sheet of paper coated on one side with a dark waxy pigment, often containing carbon, that is transferred by the pressure of writing or of typewriter keys onto the copying surface below
Often shortened to: carbon
2. another name for carbon tissue
carbon paper in American English
1.
very thin paper coated on one side with a waxy, dark-colored preparation, as of carbon: it is placed between two sheets of paper so that the pressure of typingor writing on the upper sheet makes a copy on the lower
2.
paper used in the carbon process
Examples of 'carbon paper' in a sentence
carbon paper
I found Huberman in a suburb of Cleveland, a small city named Wyet that once manufactured carbon paper.