Definition of "mimeograph" [mim•e•o•graph•mimeograph]

• A duplicator that makes copies of written, drawn, or typed material from a stencil that is fitted around an inked drum. (noun)
• A copy made by this method of duplication. (noun)
• To make (copies) on a mimeograph. (verb-transitive)
• To use a mimeograph. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "He had been long impressed by the desirability of the rapid production of copies of written documents, and, as we have seen by a previous chapter, he invented the electric pen for this purpose, only to improve upon it later with a more desirable device which he called the mimeograph, that is in use, in various forms, at this time."
• "The mimeograph was the same idea in a totally different form."
• "For fapans, the mimeograph was the reproductive method of choice (and wouldn't that statement have gotten a reaction from the membership), but a few of the sixty-five members had the equipment and inclination to get fancy."