carbon copy

• carbon-copy

carbon copy (plural carbon copies)

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.

   Synonym: (abbreviation) cc

   In preparing the contract, we'll make a carbon copy for our records.

2. (by extension) Any duplicate.

   This new home is simply a carbon copy of the one down the street.

3. (Internet) A duplicate copy of an email.

• blind carbon copy

carbon copy (third-person singular simple present carbon copies, present participle carbon copying, simple past and past participle carbon copied)

1. (transitive) To create a carbon copy of.

   Please carbon copy this contract for our records.

2. (Internet) To send a duplicate copy of an email to.

   Synonym: (abbreviation) cc