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Facsimile vs Mimeograph - What's the difference?

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Facsimile is a synonym of mimeograph.


As nouns the difference between facsimile and mimeograph

is that facsimile is facsimile while mimeograph is an invention of thomas a edison, a machine for making printed copies, using typed stencil, ubiquitous until the 1990s when photocopying became competitive (if not cheaper), and considerably easier to use.

As a verb mimeograph is

to make mimeograph copies.

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

    mimeograph

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An invention of Thomas A. Edison, a machine for making printed copies, using typed stencil, ubiquitous until the 1990s when photocopying became competitive (if not cheaper), and considerably easier to use.
    • 1910' ''So it also is in regard to the '''mimeograph , whose forerunner, the electric pen, was born of Edison's brain in 1877. He had been long impressed by the desirability of the rapid production of copies of written documents, and, as we have seen by a previous chapter, he invented the electric pen for this purpose, only to improve upon it later with a more desirable device'' — Frank Lewis Dyer & Thomas Commerford Martin, ''Edison, His Life and Inventions , Chapter 27.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make mimeograph copies.
    • 1919' ''Even the ultra-respectable "Evening Transcript", organ of the Brahmins of culture, was down for $144 for typing, '''mimeographing and sending out "dope" to the country press.'' — Upton Sinclair, ''The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation , Book 4.