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means A duplicate of a document made by a machine that uses light and electrical charge to reproduce an image onto paper, rather than by printing from ink or type.

from Built from Greek roots: 'photo-' from phos (light), and 'copy' tracing back to Latin copia (abundance, plenty) — the sense of 'copy' shifting over centuries from 'plenty' to 'transcript' to 'duplicate.' The machine itself owes its existence to xerography, invented in the late 1930s, which used static electricity and powdered toner rather than wet ink — the word 'photocopy' arriving to describe the output of that light-and-static process once it became commercially common mid-20th century.