A sheet of paper with one of the faces impregnated with carbon, used to make carbon copies
a thin paper coated on one side with a dark waxy substance (often containing carbon); used to transfer characters from the original to an under sheet of paper
Carbon paper is thin paper with a dark substance on one side. You use it to make copies of letters, bills, and other papers. The drawing is transferred onto the wood by means of carbon paper. A lightweight paper coated on one side with a dark waxy pigment, placed between two sheets of blank paper so that the bottom sheet will receive a copy of what is typed or written on the top sheet. thin paper with a blue or black substance on one side, that you put between sheets of paper when typing on a typewriter in order to make a copy onto the second sheet of paper