facsimile
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English
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Etymology
From Latin fac simile (“make like”), from fac (“make”) (imperative of facere (“make”)) + simile (neuter of similis (“like, similar”)).
Pronunciation
Noun
facsimile (countable and uncountable, plural facsimiles or facsimilia)
- (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.
- (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.
Synonyms
- (copy): autotype, copy, reproduction
- (machine): facsimile machine, fax, fax machine
- (copy made by a facsimile): facsimile reproduction, fax
Descendants
- → Japanese: ファクシミリ
Translations
copy or reproduction
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fax machine
image
Verb
facsimile (third-person singular simple present facsimiles, present participle facsimileing or facsimiling, simple past and past participle facsimiled or facsimilied)
- (transitive) To send via a facsimile machine; to fax.
- (transitive) To make a copy of; to reproduce.
Synonyms
Translations
fax — see fax