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duplicator
noun
A device that reproduces something, such as printed documents or compact discs; a copier.
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Unless someone invents a teleporter or matter duplicator, rendering much of the economics of scarcity obsolete, the physical economy will always lag behind the flow of information.Special report How about now?
Writers, though, write to communicate; and when someone to whom one has got through takes the trouble to write and tell one so, it would be pretty ungrateful to respond with something off a duplicator.
(I had to think a moment before I realized that "a duplicator" was a copying machine).
Armed with nothing but a DVD duplicator and a YouTube account, the volunteers have copied and uploaded, among other video clips, an address by John F. Kennedy; a silent film about the Communist "red scare"; a training video on farming; and a Disney film for World War II soldiers about how to avoid malaria, in Spanish.
He kept the organisation's duplicator under his bed and, if his later facility for writing was any guide, probably wrote most of the articles too.
I once edited a school magazine that switched from using a "spirit duplicator" (commonly known as a Mimeograph) to Gestetner stencils cut on a typewriter.
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The move did not exactly enhance his reputation, as the films he appeared in were international hodgepodges, such as The Secret Mark Of D'Artagnan (1962), in which dashing Musketeer Nader attempts to stop an assassination attempt on Louis XIII; or low budget nonsense like The Human Duplicators (1965) and Beyond Atlantis (1973).
But its precursors — movable-type presses, windup text-producing automata, prosthetic writing devices for the disabled, document duplicators like the "polygraph" used by Thomas Jefferson — were as much a product of the Enlightenment as the notion that society should become an administered utopia, with individuals adjusting themselves to its immutable norms.
A search warrant executed at the house led to the seizure of 1,500 pirated recordings, 36 CD burners and three high-speed cassette duplicators, according to court papers.
The combinator B′ is an associator and a permutator, whereas S and J are also duplicators.
W and M are duplicators, because in the result of their application one of the arguments (always) appears twice.[10] C, T and V are permutators, because they change the order of some of their arguments.
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