facsimile

See also: facsímile, facsimilé, fac-simile, and fac-similé

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From Latin fac simile (“make like”), from fac (“make”) (imperative of facere (“make”)) + simile (neuter of similis (“like, similar”)).

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facsimile (plural facsimiles or facsimilia)

(countable) A copy or reproduction.
- 1964, Arthur Danto, “The Artworld” in Twentieth Century Theories of Art (1990), ed. James Matheson Thompson, § VIII, 540:
  To paraphrase the critic of the Times, if one may make the facsimile of a human being out of bronze, why not the facsimile of a Brillo carton out of plywood?
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:facsimile.
(uncountable) Reproduction in the exact form as the original.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
  Indeed his rendering is so excellent an example of mediæval learning and latinity that, even at the risk of sating the learned reader with too many antiquities, I have made up my mind to give it in fac-simile, together with an expanded version for the benefit of those who find the contractions troublesome.
A fax, a machine for making and sending copies of printed material and images via radio or telephone network.
The image sent by the machine itself.

copy or reproduction

fax machine

image

facsimile (third-person singular simple present facsimiles, present participle facsimileing or facsimiling, simple past and past participle facsimiled or facsimilied)

fax — see fax