- 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.
- an exact copy or reproduction
- (as modifier)
- an image produced by facsimile transmission
- to make an exact copy of
