facsimile

noun

1. an exact copy, as of a book, painting, or manuscript.
2. Also called fax. Telecommunications.
   1. a method or device for transmitting documents, drawings, photographs, or the like, by means of radio or telephone for exact reproduction elsewhere.
   2. an image transmitted by such a method.
3. dropout(def 5).

verb (used with object), fac·sim·i·led, fac·sim·i·le·ing.

4. to reproduce in facsimile; make a facsimile of.

adjective

5. Also fax. Telecommunications.
   1. (of an image) copied by means of facsimile: facsimile mail.
   2. (of a method or device) used to produce a facsimile: facsimile transmission.

noun

1. 1. an exact copy or reproduction
   2. (as modifier)a facsimile publication
2. an image produced by facsimile transmission

verb -les, -leing or -led

3. (tr) to make an exact copy of

n.

1660s, from Latin fac simile “make similar,” from fac imperative of facere “to make” (see factitious) + simile, neuter of similis “like, similar” (see similar).