COPIER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does copier mean? 

• COPIER (noun)
  The noun COPIER has 1 sense:

1. apparatus that makes copies of typed, written or drawn material

  Familiarity information: COPIER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COPIER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Apparatus that makes copies of typed, written or drawn material

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

copier; duplicator

Hypernyms ("copier" is a kind of...):

apparatus; setup (equipment designed to serve a specific function)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "copier"):

facsimile; facsimile machine; fax (duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio)

hectograph; heliotype (duplicator consisting of a gelatin plate from which ink can be taken to make a copy)

lithograph; lithograph machine (duplicator that prints by lithography; a flat surface (of stone or metal) is treated to absorb or repel ink in the desired pattern)

mimeo; mimeograph; mimeograph machine; Roneo; Roneograph (a rotary duplicator that uses a stencil through which ink is pressed (trade mark Roneo))

photocopier (a copier that uses photographic methods of making copies)

Photostat; Photostat machine (a duplicating machine that makes quick positive or negative copies directly on the surface of prepared paper)

xerographic copier; Xerox; Xerox machine (a duplicator (trade mark Xerox) that copies graphic matter by the action of light on an electrically charged photoconductive insulating surface in which the latent image is developed with a resinous powder)

Derivation:

copy (make a replica of)

 Context examples 

As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed copier of the Encyclopædia down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)