repro
Etymology
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Etymology
Shortening.
Pronunciation Nounrepro
- (countable) Clipping of reproduction
- (uncountable) Clipping of reprography
- 2014, Helmut Kipphan, Handbook of Print Media: Technologies and Production Methods, page 526:
- There has also been a shift in the places where repro is carried out.
- (printing) The proof prepared in offset printing, with all elements positioned on the page.
- 1982, David Gates, Graphic Design Studio Procedures, page 124:
- This reproduction proof, commonly called the repro, is sent to the designer for pasting on to the mechanical.
- 2013, W. A. Evans, Advertising Today and Tomorrow:
- This will be a complete image of the advertisement, with all the elements correctly positioned and every word of copy printed and pasted down; such printed type (called 'repro') is obtained from a blockmaking and typesetting house by the typographer in exactly the same way that he will obtain the proof of a letterpress advertisement.
- (informal, computing) A method for reproducing a bug or problem.
repro (repros, present participle reproing; simple past and past participle reproed)
- (informal, computing) To reproduce (a bug or problem).
- We cannot repro the bug in the latest version, so we are marking it as fixed.
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