Meaning

(countable) A copy or reproduction..

Definitions by Sense

1. (countable) A copy or reproduction.
2. (uncountable) Reproduction in the exact form as the original.
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.
5. (transitive) To send via a facsimile machine; to fax.
6. (transitive) To make a copy of; to reproduce.

Example Sentences

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?

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.

“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.

Word Forms

• facsimiles
• facsimilia
• fac-simile
• facsimileing
• facsimiled
• facsimilied

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When Should You Use Facsimile?

Use facsimile when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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