an exact copy, as of a book, painting, or manuscript.

Also called fax. Telecommunications .

a method or device for transmitting documents, drawings, photographs, or the like, by means of radio or telephone for exact reproduction elsewhere.

an image transmitted by such a method.

dropout ( def. 5 ) .

to reproduce in facsimile; make a facsimile of.

Also, fax. Telecommunications .

(of an image) copied by means of facsimile

facsimile mail.

(of a method or device) used to produce a facsimile

facsimile transmission.

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original

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