facsimile

[fak-sim-uh-lee]

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noun

an exact copy, as of a book, painting, or manuscript.
Also called fax. Telecommunications.
1. a method or device for transmitting documents, drawings, photographs, or the like, by means of radio or telephone for exact reproduction elsewhere.
2. an image transmitted by such a method.
dropout(def 5).

verb (used with object), fac·sim·i·led, fac·sim·i·le·ing.

to reproduce in facsimile; make a facsimile of.

adjective

Also fax. Telecommunications.
1. (of an image) copied by means of facsimile: facsimile mail.
2. (of a method or device) used to produce a facsimile: facsimile transmission.

Origin of facsimile

1655–65; earlier fac simile make the like, equivalent to Latin fac (imperative of facere) + simile, noun use of neuter of similis like; see simile

Synonyms for facsimile

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1. replica, likeness. 1, 4. duplicate.

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Related Words for facsimile

photocopy, replica, likeness, copycat, ditto, Xerox, replication, reduplication, double, clone, look-alike, twin, ringer, dupe, miniature, duplicate, print, carbon, copy, transcript

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Contemporary Examples of facsimile

A Daily Mail writer, wearing a facsimile of the dress, said it was sculpted to her body, but not restrictively so.
Happy 20th Birthday, Liz Hurley’s Safety-Pin Dress
Tim Teeman
December 12, 2014
But she made it clear what she had liked about him; he wasn't a WASP, or some facsimile of a Kennedy.
Behind Arnold's Deception
Jacob Bernstein
May 18, 2011

Historical Examples of facsimile

The Bailiff of Guernsey still uses a facsimile of the original seal.
The Coinages of the Channel Islands
B. Lowsley
It was written in Hebrew, and a facsimile of the knife was drawn on it.
The Memoires of Casanova, Complete
Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
It has been honoured by reproduction in facsimile in modern times.
The Legacy of Greece
Various
The quarto was genuine in every respect, but it was a facsimile!
The Book-Hunter in London
William Roberts
I rummaged in the wastebasket and uncrumpled the morning's facsimile newspaper.
Measure for a Loner
James Judson Harmon

British Dictionary definitions for facsimile

facsimile

noun

1. an exact copy or reproduction
2. (as modifier)a facsimile publication
an image produced by facsimile transmission

verb -les, -leing or -led

(tr) to make an exact copy of

Word Origin for facsimile

C17: from Latin fac simile! make something like it!, from facere to make + similis similar, like

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Word Origin and History for facsimile

1660s, from Latin fac simile "make similar," from fac imperative of facere "to make" (see factitious) + simile, neuter of similis "like, similar" (see similar).