What is the meaning of Carbon_copy?

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

Any duplicate.

A duplicate copy of an email.

To create a carbon copy of.

To send a duplicate copy of an email to.

Source: wiktionary.org