facsimile

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A copy or reproduction.

   • 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?
2. 2

   Reproduction in the exact form as the original.

3. 3

   A fax, a machine for making and sending copies of printed material and images via radio…

   A fax, a machine for making and sending copies of printed material and images via radio or telephone network.

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   1. 4

      The image sent by the machine itself.

   2. 5

      To send via a facsimile machine

      To send via a facsimile machine; to fax.

   3. 6

      To make a copy of

      To make a copy of; to reproduce.

      • “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.
      • The branch at the top [of the figure] is facsimiled from that in the hand of Adam, in Durer’s Adam and Eve.
      • The letter was photographed, facsimiled and copied out by hand, then the original was resealed and sent on to its destination.

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• synonymfacsimile machinemachine
• synonymfaxmachine
• synonymfax machinemachine
• synonymtelefax