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xerography
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun xerography has 1 sense
- xerography(n = noun.act) Array - forming an image by the action of light on a specially coated charged plate; the latent image is developed with powders that adhere only to electrically charged areas; "edge enhancement is intrinsic in xerography" is a kind of photography, picture taking
Derived form adjective xerographic1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
xerography, n. a dry copying process in which black or coloured powder adheres to parts of a surface remaining electrically charged after exposure of the surface to light from an image of the document to be copied.
Derivative
xerographic adj. xerographically adv.
THESAURUS
xerography
albertype, book printing, chromotypography, chromotypy, chromoxylography, collotype, color printing, duplication, electronography, electrostatic printing, graphic arts, gravure, halftone engraving, hectography, history of printing, job printing, letterpress, letterpress photoengraving, line engraving, lithography, lithogravure, lithophotogravure, mimeograph, mimeography, offset, offset lithography, onset, palaeotypography, photo-offset, photochemical process, photoengraving, photogelatin process, photographic reproduction, photography, photolithography, phototypography, phototypy, photozincography, planographic printing, planography, printing, printmaking, publication, publishing, reduplication, relief printing, reproduction, reprography, rotary photogravure, rotogravure, rubbing, sheetwork, stencil, three-color printing, tracing, transcription, two-color printing, typography, typolithography, wood-block printing, xeroprinting, xylotypography, zincography
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