facsimile definition
facsimile A facsimile is a copy or reproduction of something. Many parents hope their children will be facsimiles of themselves; many children have other plans in mind. Facsimile comes from two Latin roots: facere, meaning to make, and simile, meaning like.. Fax machines are so called because they copy and transmit facsimiles of documents, or faxes for short, over phone lines.