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noun

Facsimile n. (pl. facsimiles)

A copy of anything made, either so as to be deceptive or so as to give every part and detail of the original; an exact copy or likeness.

(Telecommunications) A method for reproducing documents, drawing, or other planar image at a remote location by converting the document into coded electronic signals at one point, transmitting data via telephone line or radio signals to the remote point, and converting the signals back into a likeness of the original image. The device used at each end to convert the image to and from electronic signals was originally called Facsimile telegraph, then telefax machine, and now more commonly fax machine. The same process, using the same data transmission protocols, is now performed not only by devices dedicated exclusively to the telefax process, but also by computers and combined copying/scanning/telefax machines. Also called telefax or fax. s

Facsimile telegraph, a telegraphic apparatus reproducing messages in autograph; a fax machine.

verb

Facsimile v. t. To make a facsimile of.

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Etymology of 'Facsimile'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Facsimile" Quotes from Famous Books

... Johnny at Utrecht is issuing a facsimile of it, with all the hundred odd miniatures in colour. It will be the finest thing in reproduction ever done. Only seventy-five copies ...

— The Grim Smile of the Five Towns • Arnold Bennett

... also been provided with a facsimile of Duncan's handwriting and signature, and he carefully examined the registers of the several hotels, in order to discover whether he had stopped at any of them under his own or any fictitious name which resembled in any manner the one ...

— The Burglar's Fate And The Detectives • Allan Pinkerton

... was read by G.B.S. His remarks are printed in footnotes. [A facsimile of the] one page altered substantially by him is [omitted in ...

— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Maisie Ward

... 1890, Bret Harte, in response to a request for a facsimile of the original manuscript of "Dickens in ...

— Dickens in Camp • Bret Harte

... broken as an idea came to him. It was not so long since he had a facsimile cigar-case in his hand at Lockhart's, in North Street. Somebody connected with the mystery must have seen him admiring it and reluctantly declining the purchase, because the voice from the telephone told him that the case was a present and that ...

— The Crimson Blind • Fred M. White

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