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say it: ZIR-ahks
xerox is a noun and verb meaning "a copy made by a xerographic copier". It is pronounced /ˈzɪɹɑks/ — ZIR-ahks. It carries 3 recorded senses.
a copy made by a xerographic copier
a duplicator (trade mark Xerox) that copies graphic matter by the action of light on an electrically charged photoconductive insulating surface in which the latent image is developed with a resinous powder
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for xerox come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.