photostat
English
Noun
photostat (plural photostats)
- (dated) A photocopy, especially one made by a Photostat machine.
- Positive (black on white) or negative (white on black) reproduction of printed matter or artwork made on a photostat machine, which uses photographic paper instead of a transparent negative, and uses a prism to render the paper negative readable instead of reversed.
Verb
photostat (third-person singular simple present photostatt, present participle ing or photostating, simple past and past participle photostated or photostated)
- (transitive) To make such a photocopy of.
- 2008, Jonathan Nasaw, Fear Itself:
- […] as soul-deadeningly, eye-strainingly, sleep-inducingly boring as going through fourteen file boxes of sloppily photostatted bank records.