facsimile

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

English

Alternative forms

• fac-simile

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (US, UK) IPA^(key): /fækˈsɪm.ə.li/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Audio (UK):

  (file)

Noun

facsimile (countable and uncountable, plural facsimiles or facsimilia)

1. (countable) A copy or reproduction.
   • 1964, Arthur Danto, “The Artworld”, in James Matheson Thompson, editor, Twentieth Century Theories of Art, published 1990, § 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.
2. (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.

3. A fax, a machine for making and sending copies of printed material and images via radio or telephone network.
4. The image sent by the machine itself.

Synonyms

• (copy): autotype, copy, reproduction
• (machine): facsimile machine, fax, fax machine
• (copy made by a facsimile): facsimile reproduction, fax

Derived terms

• facsimilist
• facsimilize
• microfacsimile
• nonfacsimile
• telefacsimile

Descendants

• → Japanese: ファクシミリ

Translations

copy or reproduction

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Asturian: facsímil m
• Catalan: facsímil (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 影印 (zh) (yǐngyìn)

• Esperanto: faksimilo
• Estonian: faksiimile
• Finnish: jäljennös (fi), faksimile
• French: fac-similé (fr) m
• Galician: facsímile m
• Georgian: ფაქსიმილე (paksimile), ასლი (ka) (asli)
• German: Faksimile (de) n, Reproduktion (de) f
• Greek: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: fakszimile (hu) sg
• Ido: faksimilo (io)
• Irish: macasamhail f
• Latvian: faksimils
• Polish: faksymile (pl) n pl
• Portuguese: fac-símile (pt) m
• Romanian: facsimil (ro) n
• Russian: факси́миле (ru) n (faksímile), ко́пия (ru) f (kópija)
• Spanish: facsímil (es) m
• Swedish: faksimil (sv)
• Turkish: tıpkıbasım (tr)
• Welsh: cyfargraff f

fax machine

• Finnish: faksi (fi)
• French: fax (fr) m, télécopieur (fr) m
• Ido: faxilo (io)
• Japanese: ファックス (ja) (fakkusu), ファクシミリ (ja) (fakusimiri)
• Portuguese: fax (pt) m
• Russian: факс (ru) m (faks)

image

• Finnish: faksi (fi)
• Japanese: ファクシミリ (ja) (fakushimiri)
• Korean: 팩시밀리 (ko) (paeksimilli)
• Russian: факси́миле (ru) n (faksímile), факс (ru) m (faks)

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To send via a facsimile machine; to fax.
2. (transitive) To make a copy of; to reproduce.
   • 1851, Rosina Bulwer-Lytton, Miriam Sedley‎^[1], volume 1, pages 184-185:

     “What is a turtle?” asked I, facsimileing the graceful attitude of Don José, and leaning both my arms full-length on the table, while I stared him undauntedly in the face, as if he had been no more than an ordinary man.

   • 1860, John Ruskin, Modern Painters‎^[2], volume 5, page 68:

     The branch at the top [of the figure] is facsimiled from that in the hand of Adam, in Durer’s Adam and Eve.

   • 1974, Stanisław Lem, translated by Michael Kandel, The Cyberiad‎^[3], page 189:

     The letter was photographed, facsimiled and copied out by hand, then the original was resealed and sent on to its destination.

Synonyms

• fax, telefax

Translations

fax — see fax