facsimile
/fakˈsɪmɪli
/noun
1An exact copy, especially of written or printed material: a facsimile of the manuscript [as modifier]: facsimile editions...
- Modern edited texts, he argues, posit a kind of authorial intention which did not exist for many of the writers whose plays are preserved in print, while facsimiles hypostatize one printed copy of a play as ‘the play.’
- ‘The books in this program are printed as facsimiles of the last edition,’ says John Walsh, production manager at the press.
- Sometimes, rather than going to the trouble of printing a facsimile of an existing book, he used the original edition itself by purchasing a number of copies and altering each of them by hand.
Synonyms
copy, reproduction, duplicate, photocopy, mimeograph, mimeo, replica, likeness, carbon, carbon copy, print, reprint, offprint, image;
fax, telefax;
clone;
North American telecopy;
Printing autotype
trademark Xerox, photostat
double, lookalike, twin, clone, duplicate, perfect likeness, exact likeness, echo, replica, copy, imitation, picture, image, living image, mirror-image;
German Doppelgänger
informal spitting image, dead ringer, ringer, (very) spit, dead spit, spit and image
1.1 another term for fax1.The business centre has full secretarial and administrative services Internet access, photocopying, full colour laser printing, a facsimile service and couriers....
- In the meantime we attach a duly authorised copy of your facsimile dated 6th October 2000, which can now be included in the aforementioned Sub-Contract Agreement.
- She accepted the offer by return facsimile the same day.
verb (facsimiles, facsimileing, facsimiled) [with object]
Make a copy of: the ride was facsimiled for another theme park...
- All those who did not respond were contacted by telephone, and the questionnaire was facsimiled a second time.
- From the given facts we know Wen had facsimiled a letter to Jo revoking his offer before Jo received the letter and replied to it.
Phrases
in facsimile
Origin
Late 16th century (originally as fac simile, denoting the making of an exact copy, especially of writing): modern Latin, from Latin fac! (imperative of facere 'make') and simile (neuter of similis 'like').
This was originally written fac simile, meaning the making of an exact copy, usually a copy of a piece of writing. It is modern Latin, from Latin fac ‘make’ and simile ‘like’. The abbreviation fax dates from the 1940s.