carbon copy vs look-alike

carbon copy

noun
  • A duplicate copy of an email. 

  • 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. 

  • Any duplicate. 

verb
  • To send a duplicate copy of an email to. 

  • To create a carbon copy of. 

look-alike

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