Alternative forms

• fac-simile

Etymology

From LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#FACSIMILE fac simile (“make like”), from fac (“make”) (imperative of facere (“make”)) + simile (neuter of similis (“like, similar”)).

Pronunciation

• (US, UK) IPA^(key): /fækˈsɪm.ə.li/Category:English 4-syllable words#FACSIMILECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#FACSIMILE

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Noun

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facsimile

Wikipedia

facsimile (countable and uncountable, plural facsimiles or facsimilia)Category:English lemmas#FACSIMILECategory:English nouns#FACSIMILECategory:English uncountable nouns#FACSIMILECategory:English countable nouns#FACSIMILECategory:English countable nouns#FACSIMILECategory:English nouns with irregular plurals#FACSIMILECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#FACSIMILECategory:Pages with entries#FACSIMILECategory:Pages with 1 entry#FACSIMILE

1. (countableCategory:English countable nouns#FACSIMILE) 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?

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   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:facsimile.
2. (uncountableCategory:English uncountable nouns#FACSIMILE) 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.

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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.

Verb

facsimile (third-person singular simple present facsimiles, present participle facsimileing, simple past and past participle facsimiled or facsimilied)Category:English lemmas#FACSIMILECategory:English verbs#FACSIMILECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#FACSIMILECategory:Pages with entries#FACSIMILECategory:Pages with 1 entry#FACSIMILE

1. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#FACSIMILE) To send via a facsimile machine; to fax.
2. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#FACSIMILE) To make a copy of; to reproduce.
   • 1851, Rosina Bulwer-Lytton, Miriam Sedley‎, volume 1, pages 184-185:

     “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.

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   • 1860, John Ruskin, Modern Painters‎, volume 5, page 68:

     The branch at the top [of the figure] is facsimiled from that in the hand of Adam, in Durer’s Adam and Eve.

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   • 1974, Stanisław Lem, translated by Michael Kandel, The Cyberiad‎, page 189:

     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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