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carbon copy

In e-mail, a duplicate copy of a message sent to multiple recipients; a nod to traditional office systems. It is often abbreviated in software and on line to ‘cc’.



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They are all their own persons and not carbon copies of anyone else.
Indeed, the concept of the periodic backup predates personal computing itself; Iron Mountain arguably delivered the first backup solution in the mid-1950s when it began burying carbon copies of documents in an abandoned iron mine in upstate New York.
Its strategy calls for plants to essentially be carbon copies of each other: same layout, same processes, same equipment.
 
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