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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

... persuasively, and well; the perfect machinery was imitating for him a single-minded, ardent, honourable young man, intelligent enough to know his own mind, manly enough to speak it. The facsimile was flawless. ...

— The Common Law • Robert W. Chambers

... dinner, over which Sir John Hare presided, Frohman was presented with a massive silver cigarette-box, on which was engraved the facsimile signatures of every one present. These signatures comprise the "Who's Who" of the British theater. These princes of the drama were proud and glad to call themselves "A few of his friends," as the ...

— Charles Frohman: Manager and Man • Isaac Frederick Marcosson and Daniel Frohman

... the beam (of which, as it has been carefully preserved by the subsequent owners of Mr. Wood's habitation in Wych Street, we are luckily enabled to furnish a facsimile) was ...

— Jack Sheppard - A Romance • William Harrison Ainsworth

... tribe when his English name is used—"Guest." Hicks, remembering a word that sounded like it, wrote it—George Guess. It was a "rough guess," but answered the purpose. The silversmith was as ignorant of English as he was of any written language. Being a fine workman, he made a steel die, a facsimile of the name written by Hicks. With this he put his "trade mark" on his silver-ware, and it is borne to this day on many of these ancient pieces in the ...

— Se-Quo-Yah; from Harper's New Monthly, V. 41, 1870 • Unknown

... end of his edition of Robert of Avesbury, in the Pamphleteer, vol. xxi., and in the Harleian Miscellany, vol. iii. The originals in Henry's hand are in the Vatican Library; one of them was reproduced in facsimile for the illustrated edition of ...

— Henry VIII. • A. F. Pollard

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