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Fac simile is a Latin phrase meaning “make alike.” English speakers began using facsimile to mean “an exact copy” in the late 1600s. In this sense, a facsimile might be a handwritten or hand-drawn copy, or even a copy of a painting or statue.
Examples of facsimile. Use technology to add a human whistle or the real tick of a watch, but don't replace them with false facsimiles. So it was a facsimile of the system. The painting, the movie, the song -- these may be incredible facsimiles of our experience here on earth.
1. an exact copy, as of a book, painting, or manuscript. 2. Also called: fax Telecommunications. a. a method or device for transmitting documents, drawings, photographs, or the like, by means of radio or telephone for exact reproduction elsewhere. b. an image transmitted by such a method.
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A facsimile (from Latin fac simile, "to make alike") is a copy or reproduction of an old book, manuscript, map, art print, or other item of historical value that is as true to the original source as possible.
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Noun. 1. facsimile - an exact copy or reproduction. autotype. copy - a thing made to be similar or identical to another thing; "she made a copy of the designer dress"; "the clone was a copy of its ancestor". 2. facsimile - duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio. facsimile machine, fax.
