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A carbon copy is the under-copy of a document created when carbon paper is placed between the original and the under-copy during the production of a document.〔Beal, Peter. (2008) "carbon copy" in ''A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology 1450–2000''. Online edition. Oxford University Press, 2008. http://www.oxfordreference.com Retrieved 22 November 2013.〕 With the advent of email, the abbreviation ''cc'' or ''bcc'' (blind carbon copy) has also come to refer to simultaneously sending copies of an electronic message to secondary recipients. == Use == A sheet of carbon paper is placed between two sheets of paper and the pressure applied by the writing implement (pen, pencil, typewriter or impact printer) to the top sheet causes pigment from the carbon paper to make a similar mark on the copy. More than one copy can be made by stacking several sheets with carbon paper between each pair. Four or five copies is a practical limit. The top sheet is the ''original'' and each of the additional sheets is called a carbon copy, from the use of the carbon paper. The use of carbon copies declined with the advent of photocopying and electronic document creation and distribution (word processing). Carbon copies are still used in special applications, for example, in manual receipt books which have a multiple-use sheet of carbon paper supplied, in order that the user can keep an exact copy of each receipt issued, although even here carbonless copy paper is often used to the same effect. It is still common for a business letter to include, at the end, a list of names preceded by the abbreviation "cc:", indicating that the named persons are to receive copies of the letter, even though carbon paper is no longer used to make the copies. An alternative etymology is that "c:" was used for copy and "cc:" indicates the plural, just as "p." means page and "pp." means pages. This alternative etymology explains the frequent usage of "c:" when only one recipient is listed, while "cc:" is used for two or more recipients of the copies. This etymology can also explain why, even originally, "cc:" was used to list recipients who received typed copies and not necessarily carbon copies.〔("CC all readers" ). New Scientist. 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-03.〕 The term "carbon copy" can be used in reference to anything that was a near duplicate of an original ("...and you want to turn him into a carbon copy of every fourth-rate conformist in this frightened land!", Heinlein, ''Stranger in a Strange Land''). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「carbon copy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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