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A perfect copy that proudly admits it isn't the original.
means An exact reproduction of something — a document, image, or object — made to look just like the original.
from Straight from Latin fac simile, literally 'make similar' — fac (do/make, an imperative of facere) plus simile (like, similar). It entered English in the 1600s as a near word-for-word loan, originally used for exact copies of handwriting and manuscripts before stretching to cover any faithful duplicate, including the fax machine that later borrowed its first syllable.
- literal latin
- fac simile means make similar
- fax origin
- the word fax is just this, shortened
- legal status
- courts often accept facsimiles as valid signatures
- irony
- the copy outlived the machine that made it