facsimile
facsimile Lexical Profile
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• noun
An exact copy or reproduction of a written, printed, or illustrated document.
"The museum displays a high-resolution facsimile of the original medieval manuscript to protect the fragile parchment from light."
A system of telecommunications for transmitting scanned printed material and images over telephone lines, or a document received by this method.
"Please send a signed facsimile of the contract to our main office before five o'clock."
• verb
To make an exact copy or reproduction of a document, book, or work of art.
"The university press facsimiled the rare first-edition folio so scholars worldwide could examine its original typography."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the 17th century from the Neo-Latin phrase 'fac simile', literally meaning 'make a similar thing' (from the imperative of 'facere' meaning 'to make' and the neuter of 'similis' meaning 'like'). The everyday modern word 'fax' is a direct clipped shortening of 'facsimile'.