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Replica vs Mimeograph - What's the difference?

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Replica is a related term of mimeograph.


As verbs the difference between replica and mimeograph

is that replica is while mimeograph is to make mimeograph copies.

As a noun mimeograph is

an invention of thomas a edison, a machine for making printed copies, using typed stencil, ubiquitous until the 1990s when photocopying became competitive (if not cheaper), and considerably easier to use.

replica

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An exact copy.
    • The statue on the museum floor is an authentic replica .
  • A copy made at a smaller scale of the original.
    • He collected replicas of old cars.

    Related terms

    * replicant * replicate * replication * reply

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    mimeograph

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An invention of Thomas A. Edison, a machine for making printed copies, using typed stencil, ubiquitous until the 1990s when photocopying became competitive (if not cheaper), and considerably easier to use.
    • 1910' ''So it also is in regard to the '''mimeograph , whose forerunner, the electric pen, was born of Edison's brain in 1877. 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'' — Frank Lewis Dyer & Thomas Commerford Martin, ''Edison, His Life and Inventions , Chapter 27.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make mimeograph copies.
    • 1919' ''Even the ultra-respectable "Evening Transcript", organ of the Brahmins of culture, was down for $144 for typing, '''mimeographing and sending out "dope" to the country press.'' — Upton Sinclair, ''The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation , Book 4.