Definition of "facsimile"

facsimile

/fækˈsɪm.ə.li/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural facsimiles or facsimilia
1. (countable) A copy or reproduction.
  Quotations
  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?
  1964, Arthur Danto, “The Artworld”, in James Matheson Thompson, editor, Twentieth Century Theories of Art, published 1990, § VIII, 540
2. (uncountable) Reproduction in the exact form as the original.
  Quotations
  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.
  1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887
3. A fax, a machine for making and sending copies of printed material and images via radio or telephone network.
4. The image sent by the machine itself.
verb
third-person singular simple present facsimiles, present participle facsimileing or facsimiling, simple past and past participle facsimiled or facsimilied
1. (transitive) To send via a facsimile machine; to fax.
2. (transitive) To make a copy of; to reproduce.