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soft copy

noun

Etymology

From soft + copy, attributed to American information technologist, philosopher, and sociologist Ted Nelson.

  1. derived from cōpia
  2. derived from copia
  3. derived from copie
  4. inherited from copy
  5. compounded as soft copy — “soft + copy”

Definitions

  1. A digital copy of a document, rather than a copy printed on paper.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for soft copy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA