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Duplicate vs Facsimile - What's the difference?

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Duplicate is a related term of facsimile.


As nouns the difference between duplicate and facsimile

is that duplicate is one that resembles or corresponds to another; an identical copy while facsimile is facsimile.

As an adjective duplicate

is being the same as another; identical this may exclude the first identical item in a series, but usage is inconsistent.

As a verb duplicate

is to make a copy of.

duplicate

English

Adjective

(-)
  • being the same as another; identical. This may exclude the first identical item in a series, but usage is inconsistent.
    • This is a duplicate entry.

    Verb

    (duplicat)
  • to make a copy of
    • If we duplicate the information, are we really accomplishing much?
  • to do repeatedly; to do again
    • You don't need to duplicate my efforts.
  • to produce something equal to
    • He found it hard to duplicate the skills of his wife.

    See also

    * repeat

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One that resembles or corresponds to another; an identical copy.
    • This is a duplicate , but a very good replica.
  • * Sir W. Temple
    • I send a duplicate both of it and my last dispatch.
  • (legal) An original instrument repeated; a document which is the same as another in all essential particulars, and differing from a mere copy in having all the validity of an original.
    • (Burrill)
  • The game of duplicate bridge.
  • * 1999 , Matthew Granovetter, Murder at the Bridge Table (page 6)
    • The momentary madness which infects bridge players occurs frequently at rubber bridge and duplicate ; and though it rarely results in murder, it often terminates marriages and close friendships
  • The game of duplicate Scrabble.

    • Synonyms

    * reproduction

    facsimile

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A copy or reproduction.
  • * 1990 , James M. Thompson, Twentieth Century Theories of Art (page 540)
    • To paraphrase the critic of the Times, if one may make the facsimile of a human being out of bronze, why not the facsimile of a Brillo carton out of plywood?
  • A fax, a machine for making and sending copies of printed material and images via radio or telephone network.
  • The image sent by the machine itself.

    • Synonyms

    * (copy) autotype, copy, reproduction * (machine) facsimile machine, fax, fax machine * (copy made by a facsimile) facsimile reproduction, fax

    Verb

    (facsimil)
  • To send via a facsimile machine; to fax.

    • Synonyms

    * fax, telefax