different between facsimile vs polytype

English

Etymology

From Latin fac simile (“make like”), from fac (“make”) (imperative of facere (“make”)) + simile (neuter of similis (“like, similar”)).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /fæk?s?m.?.li/

Noun

facsimile (plural facsimiles or facsimilia)

1. (countable) A copy or reproduction.
   • 1964, Arthur Danto, “The Artworld” in Twentieth Century Theories of Art (1990), ed. James Matheson Thompson, § VIII, 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?

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:facsimile.
2. (uncountable) Reproduction in the exact form as the original.
3. A fax, a machine for making and sending copies of printed material and images via radio or telephone network.
4. 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

Translations

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To send via a facsimile machine; to fax.
2. (transitive) To make a copy of; to reproduce.

Synonyms

• fax, telefax

Translations

English

Etymology

poly- +? type

Noun

polytype (plural polytypes)

1. Any of the types involved in polytypism.

2. A cast, or facsimile copy, of an engraved block, matter in type, etc.
   • 1825, Thomas Curson Hansard, Typographia, an Historical Sketch of the Origin and Progress of the Art of Printing

     Towards the end of the eighteenth century , Professor Wilson of Glasgow , being engaged in a series of experiments for making etchings upon glass with fluoric acid for the purposes of art , thought it possible to make polytypes of glass from engraved copperplates

3. (computing theory) In the Hindley–Milner type system, a data type containing variables bound by one or more ? (for-all) quantifiers.

   Coordinate term: monotype

Verb

polytype (third-person singular simple present polytypes, present participle polytyping, simple past and past participle polytyped)

1. (transitive) To produce a polytype of.

   to polytype an engraving

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: polytypent, polytypes

Verb

polytype

1. first-person singular present indicative of polytyper
2. third-person singular present indicative of polytyper
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of polytyper
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of polytyper
5. second-person singular imperative of polytyper