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facsimiling

facsimiling is the present participle and gerund of facsimile.

Meaning of facsimile

Verb

facsimile (third-person singular simple present facsimiles, present participle facsimileing, simple past and past participle facsimiled or facsimilied)

  1. (transitive) To send by means of a facsimile machine; to fax.
  2. (transitive) To make a copy of; to reproduce.
    • “What is a turtle?” asked I, facsimileing the graceful attitude of Don José, and leaning both my arms full-length on the table, while I stared him undauntedly in the face, as if he had been no more than an ordinary man.1851, Rosina Bulwer-Lytton, Miriam Sedley, volume 1, pages 184-185

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Questions about facsimiling

What is facsimiling the present participle and gerund of?
Facsimiling is the present participle and gerund of facsimile.

Words near facsimiling in the dictionary

  1. facsimiled
  2. facsimileing
  3. facsimiles
  4. facsimilia
  5. facsimilied
  6. facsimiling
  7. facsimilist
  8. facsimilists
  9. facsimilize
  10. facsimilized
  11. facsimilizes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: facsimiling (page history and authors); facsimile (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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