noun
- an exact copy, as of a book, painting, or manuscript.
- Also called fax. Telecommunications.
- a method or device for transmitting documents, drawings, photographs, or the like, by means of radio or telephone for exact reproduction elsewhere.
- an image transmitted by such a method.
- dropout(def 5).
verb (used with object), fac·sim·i·led, fac·sim·i·le·ing.
- to reproduce in facsimile; make a facsimile of.
adjective
- Also fax. Telecommunications.
- (of an image) copied by means of facsimile: facsimile mail.
- (of a method or device) used to produce a facsimile: facsimile transmission.
noun
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- an exact copy or reproduction
- (as modifier)a facsimile publication
- an image produced by facsimile transmission
verb -les, -leing or -led
- (tr) to make an exact copy of
1660s, from Latin fac simile “make similar,” from fac imperative of facere “to make” (see factitious) + simile, neuter of similis “like, similar” (see similar).