facsimile

See also: facsímile, facsimilé, fac-simile, and fac-similé

English

Etymology

From Latin 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/
Audio (US) (file)

Noun

facsimile (plural facsimiles or facsimilia)

(countable) A copy or reproduction.
- 1964, Arthur Danto, “The Artworld” in Twentieth Century Theories of Art (1990), ed. James Matheson Thompson, § 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?
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:facsimile.
(uncountable) 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 1167497017:
  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.
A fax, a machine for making and sending copies of printed material and images via radio or telephone network.
The image sent by the machine itself.

Synonyms

(copy): autotype, copy, reproduction
(machine): facsimile machine, fax, fax machine
(copy made by a facsimile): facsimile reproduction, fax

Descendants

→ Japanese: ファクシミリ

Translations

copy or reproduction

Asturian: facsímil m
Catalan: facsímil (ca) m
Esperanto: faksimilo
Estonian: faksiimile
Finnish: jäljennös (fi), faksimile
Galician: facsímile m
German: Faksimile (de) n, Reproduktion (de) f
Hungarian: fakszimile sg
Ido: faksimilo (io)
Latvian: faksimils
Portuguese: fac-símile (pt) m
Russian: факси́миле (ru) n (faksímile), ко́пия (ru) f (kópija)
Spanish: facsímil (es) m
Swedish: faksimil (sv)
Welsh: cyfargraff f

fax machine

Finnish: faksi (fi)
Ido: faxilo (io)
Japanese: ファックス (fakkusu), ファクシミリ (fakusimiri)
Portuguese: fax (pt) m
Russian: факс (ru) m (faks)

image

Finnish: faksi (fi)
Japanese: ファクシミリ (fakushimiri)
Korean: 팩시밀리 (ko) (paeksimilli)
Russian: факси́миле (ru) n (faksímile), факс (ru) m (faks)

Verb

facsimile (third-person singular simple present facsimiles, present participle facsimileing or facsimiling, simple past and past participle facsimiled or facsimilied)

(transitive) To send via a facsimile machine; to fax.
(transitive) To make a copy of; to reproduce.

Synonyms

fax, telefax

Translations

fax — see fax