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Photostat vs Photostate - What's the difference?

photostat | photostate |

Photostate is often a misspelling of photostat.


Photostate has no English definition.

As a noun photostat

is a photocopy, especially one made by a Photostat machine

As a verb photostat

is to make such a photocopy.

photostat

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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

    (en-verb)
  • To make such a photocopy.
  • * 2008 , Jonathan Nasaw, Fear Itself
    • as soul-deadeningly, eye-strainingly, sleep-inducingly boring as going through fourteen file boxes of sloppily photostatted bank records.

    photostate

    Not English

    Photostate has no English definition. It may be misspelled.