Noun

1. A copy produced in an alternated stack of ordinary sheets of paper and carbon papers. The pression 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.

   Please make a carbon copy of this contract for our records.

2. Any duplicate.

   This new home is simply a carbon copy of the one down the street.

Verb

1. To create a carbon copy of.

   Please carbon copy this contract for our records.