carbon copy

Meaning

Noun

1. A copy produced in an alternated stack of ordinary sheets of paper and carbon papers. The pressure 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.
2. (broadly) Any duplicate.
3. (Internet) A duplicate copy of an email.

Verb

1. (transitive) To create a carbon copy of.
2. (Internet) To send a duplicate copy of an email to.

Synonyms

carbon

cc

clone

copies

copy

duplicate

hardcopy

illustration

replica

CC

check stub

Translations

Durchschlag

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copie carbone

copie

copia

copia

Kopie

Durchschrift

cópia carbono

copie conforme

copia al carbón

exemplaire

charbon

carbone

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