facsimiles
Reproductions of originals
Facsimiles are exact copies or reproductions of documents, signatures, or other originals.
A facsimile edition of a manuscript replicates the original page by page.
The word often appears in formal or legal contexts: Send a facsimile of the signed contract.
Fax, the technology for transmitting documents over phone lines, is short for facsimile.
Makes identical versions
- duplicatesIdentical reproductions
- replicasExact copies of originals
- reproductionsCopies of originals
- imitationsCopies meant to resemble
counterparts · likenesses · representations · transcriptions · photocopies · prints · doubles · clones
Handwritten or typed originals
- editionsVersions of publications
- archivesStored historical documents
- scrollsRolled written records
- codicesBound handwritten volumes
originals · signatures · letters · autographs · texts · papers · records · folios
Fraudulent imitations of originals
- counterfeitsFraudulent imitations of valuables
- fakesFraudulent imitations
- fraudsDeceptive acts or impostors
- impostorsThose falsely claiming identity
shams · hoaxes · deceptions · phonies · bogus · spurious · falsifications · fabrications
Phone-line document transmissions
- telegramsWired text messages
- transmissionsSent communications or signals
- scansReads rapidly or images
- digitizationsConversions to electronic format
uploads · downloads · attachments · cables · wires · telex · telecommunications · modems
copies
Makes identical versions
- duplicatesIdentical reproductions
- replicasExact copies of originals
- reproductionsCopies of originals
imitations · counterparts · likenesses · representations · transcriptions · photocopies · prints · doubles · clones · simulacra
manuscripts
Handwritten or typed originals
codices · originals · signatures · letters · autographs · texts · papers · records · folios · vellum
forgeries
Fraudulent imitations of originals
- counterfeitsFraudulent imitations of valuables
- fakesFraudulent imitations
- fraudsDeceptive acts or impostors
impostors · shams · hoaxes · deceptions · phonies · bogus · spurious · falsifications · fabrications · reproductions
faxes
Phone-line document transmissions
- telegramsWired text messages
- transmissionsSent communications or signals
- scansReads rapidly or images
digitizations · uploads · downloads · attachments · cables · wires · telex · telecommunications · modems · machines
- art reproductionsreproductions, replicas, copies, prints, master copy
- doublesdouble, doubles, twin, twins, duplicate
- imitationcopy, copycat, imitation, mimicking, replica
- replicasreproductions, duplicates, imitations, knockoffs, counterfeits
- rare booksGutenberg Bible, first edition, rare editions, rare books, first editions
- illuminationillumination, illuminated manuscripts, illuminators, historiated initials, miniature
facsimilesoriginals
Authentic first versions
genuine articles · master copies · archetypes · prototypes · primary sources
facsimilesuniques
Distinct individual items
singularities · one-of-a-kind items · originals · one-of-a-kinds
- facsimile machineDevice sending documents telephonically