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photostat | x |

As a noun photostat

is (dated) a photocopy, especially one made by a (photostat machine).

As a verb photostat

is to make such a photocopy.

As a letter x is

the twenty-fourth letter of the.

As a symbol x is

voiceless velar fricative.

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.

    x

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=W, next=Y, image= (wikipedia X)

    Etymology 1

    Letter

  • The twenty-fourth letter of the .
    • See also
    (Latn-script)

    Cardinal number

    (mul-number)
  • The number 10.

    • Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
  • strike

    • Etymology 2

    Possibly from skull and crossbones

    Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
    • Derived terms
    * XXX

    See also

    {{Letter , page=X , NATO=X-ray , Morse=–··– , Character=X , Braille=? }} Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur Roman numerals ----