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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

... O'Heffernan is referred to by our scribe as "seinleabar," but his reference is rather to the contents than to the copy. Apparently O'Clery did more than transcribe; he re-edited, as was his wont, into the literary Irish of his day. A page of the Brussels MS., reproduced in facsimile as a frontispiece to the present volume, will give the student a good idea of O'Clery's ...

— Lives of SS. Declan and Mochuda • Anonymous

... of De rebus Iaponicis, compiled by John Hay, S J. (Antverpiae, M. DC. V); photographic facsimile, from copy in Library of Congress. 187 Title-page of Relatione breve, by Diego de Torres (Milano, MDCIII); photographic facsimile, from copy in library ...

— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume XI, 1599-1602 • Various

... Administration from further solicitude for the safety of the Maryland and Pennsylvania borders. The President's appreciation of the victory was expressed in a despatch so like Mr. Lincoln that I give a facsimile ...

— The Memoirs of General Philip H. Sheridan, Vol. II., Part 4 • P. H. Sheridan

... good telex, telegraph, facsimile and cellular phone services; domestic satellite system with 1 Comsat earth station international: satellite earth station—1 Intelsat ...

— The 1999 CIA Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... original "Shakespeare" Monument in Stratford Parish Church, a facsimile from Dugdale's "History of Warwickshire," ...

— Bacon is Shake-Speare • Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence

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