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fax

[faks] Telecommunications.
–noun
1. facsimile (def. 2).
–adjective
2. facsimile (def. 5).
–verb (used with object)
3. to transmit a facsimile of (printed matter, photographs, or the like) electronically: Fax the information to all our branch offices.

Origin:
by shortening and resp.

fac⋅sim⋅i⋅le

[fak-sim-uh-lee] noun, verb, -led, -le⋅ing, adjective
–noun
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.
3. dropout (def. 5).
–verb (used with object)
4. to reproduce in facsimile; make a facsimile of.
–adjective
5. Also, fax. Telecommunications.
a. (of an image) copied by means of facsimile: facsimile mail.
b. (of a method or device) used to produce a facsimile: facsimile transmission.

Origin:
1655–65; earlier fac simile make the like, equiv. to L fac (impv. of facere) + simile, n. use of neut. of similis like; see simile


1. replica, likeness. 1, 4. duplicate.
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Word Origin & History

facsimile 
1662, from L. fac simile "make similar," from fac imperative of facere "make" + simile, neut. of similis "like, similar."

fax  (n.)
1948, short for facsimile (telegraphy). The verb first attested 1979.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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