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noun

carbon

A copy that closely matches an original.

The child is a carbon of her mother at the same age.

Etymology
carbonLatincoal

Latin carbo meant coal or charcoal. Carbon paper used a dark coating to transfer writing onto another sheet, giving carbon its shortened sense of a duplicate copy.

More examples

  • His drawing was almost a carbon of the original.
  • The clerk kept a carbon for the office files.
  • The second report read like a carbon of the first.

Forms

carbon · carbons

Similar words

duplicate
Another instance matching an original.
replica
A deliberately made copy, often of an object.