Xerox

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1950s: an invented name, based on xerography.


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From Xerox(“a photocopier”) (originally a trademark), from xerography, from Ancient Greek ξηρός(xērós, “dry”) and γραφή(graphḗ, “writing”).


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Xerox

1952, trademark taken out by Haloid Co. of Rochester, N.Y., for a copying device, from xerography. The verb is first attested 1965, from the noun, despite strenuous objection from the Xerox copyright department. Related: Xeroxed; Xeroxing.