XEROGRAPHY

xerography

(noun) 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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

xerography (uncountable)

a photocopying process in which a negative image formed on an electrically charged plate is transferred as a positive to paper and thermally fixed

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

4 November 2024

STAGNATION

(noun) a state of inactivity (in business or art etc); “economic growth of less than 1% per year is considered to be economic stagnation”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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