present participle of carbon copy

plural of copying press

(historical) A machine for taking an exact copy, by pressure, of a document written in special ink on special paper.

present participle of copy and paste

present participle of shallow-copy

present participle of deep copy

(historical) a machine for taking by pressure, an exact copy of letters, etc., written in copying ink.

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.

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

(computing) A copy of a data structure which shares any linked structures with the original.