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Definition of Carbon copy
1. Noun. A copy made with carbon paper.
Definition of Carbon copy
1. Noun. A copy produced in an alternated stack of ordinary sheets of paper and carbon papers. The pression applied on the top sheet (by a pen or typewriter) causes every carbon paper to release its carbon cover, thus reproducing the writing on the subjacent layers of paper. ¹
2. Noun. Any duplicate. ¹
3. Verb. To create a carbon copy of. ¹
4. Verb. (Internet) make a copy for, send a duplicate to, cc ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carbon Copy
Literary usage of Carbon copy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual for Courts-martial, Courts of Inquiry and of Other Procedure Under by United States War Dept (1916)
"A carbon copy of the voucher will be forwarded with the record for the information
of the appointing authority. [NOTE.—For form of voucher for payment of ..."
2. Cases on the Law of Evidence: Selected from Decisions of English and by Edward Wilcox Hinton (1919)
"We think that a carbon copy of a letter addressed to an adversary in a lawsuit
... What is called the "carbon copy" is produced by placing a sheet of carbon ..."
3. W. B. Yeats: Manuscripts of W.B. Yeats by David R. Clark, William Butler Yeats (1989)
"This carbon copy is identical to the carbon copy marked "AI" which has been ...
It is simply a carbon copy. The white typing paper (20.35 cm x 26.25 cm) is ..."
4. Writing the Photoplay by Joseph Berg Esenwein, Arthur Leeds (1919)
"from 35 cents to 50 cents per thousand words, including one carbon copy. If you
have a typewriter you will, of course, make at least one carbon copy. ..."
5. The Encyclopædia of Evidence by Edgar Whittlesey Camp, John Finley Crowe (1907)
"Bigelow, 45 Fla. 638. 33 So. 704. carbon copy of Longhand Transcript May Be Used
by Reporter. In Harmon v. Territory, 15 Okla. 147. ..."
6. Commercial Correspondence and Postal Information by Carl Lewis Altmaier (1915)
"A carbon " copy " is a " duplicate original," that is, one struck off at the ...
In the words of a judicial decision, "A carbon copy of a paper made by the ..."
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