Facsimile

Quick meaning: Facsimile is a noun meaning (countable) A copy or reproduction.

Meaning

(countable) A copy or reproduction.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) Reproduction in the exact form as the original.
2. A fax, a machine for making and sending copies of printed material and images via radio or telephone network.
3. The image sent by the machine itself.
4. (transitive) To send via a facsimile machine; to fax.
5. (transitive) To make a copy of; to reproduce.

Example Sentences

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.

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?

“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.

Word Forms

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

Synonyms for facsimile

Depending on context, synonyms include autotype, copy, reproduction, fax, telefax.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include autotype, telefax, fax, copy, photocopy, photocopying.

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