facsimile

技術の進歩とくに電子機器や情報通信関連の変遷は驚く程です。公衆電話もほとんど見かけなくなり、ファックスはまだ使われてはいますが、寿命は後数年ではないでしょうか。ファックス（fax）は日本語では当初ファクシミリ（facsimile）と呼ばれる方が多かったと思います。日本語のファクシミリはファックスの意味でしか使われませんが、辞書に最初に書かれている "facsimile" 意味はコピーです。
・Oxford English Dictionary: An exact copy, especially of written or printed material.
・Vocabulary.com: 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. Grammatically speaking, photocopiers also make facsimiles, but oddly enough those are referred to as copies ? not faxes.
Asiatic Society of Japan２月例会の講演録にコピーの意味での "facsimile" が次の様に出て来ました。 In conclusion, Mr. Naumann showed a facsimile of a very large Buddhist painting in ink, colour and gold, depicting the Womb Mandala, which had been passed to the Freer/Sackler Gallery from his collection about 19 years ago; the Bunkach? had probably allowed it to go overseas because it had gone to a national museum of Asian art.