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- Dictionaryfax/faks/
noun
- 1. an exact copy of a document made by electronic scanning and transmitted as data by telecommunications links: "we got a three-page fax from her assistant"
verb
- 1. send (a document) by fax: "please fax the agreement to me"
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FAX definition: 1. (a copy of) a document that travels in electronic form along a phone line and is then printed on…. Learn more.
1. : facsimile sense 2. 2. : a device used to send or receive facsimile communications. 3. : a facsimile communication. fax verb. Examples of fax in a Sentence. She sent me a copy of her report by fax. She sent me a fax of her report.
Wireless transmission. Children read a wirelessly transmitted newspaper in 1938. As a designer for the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), in 1924, Richard H. Ranger invented the wireless photoradiogram, or transoceanic radio facsimile, the forerunner of today's "fax" machines.
A fax -- short for facsimile and sometimes called telecopying -- is the telephonic transmission of scanned-in printed material, including text or images. Faxes are usually sent to a telephone number associated with a printer, fax machine or other output device.
noun. us / fæks / uk / fæks / Add to word list. [ C ] (a copy of) a document that travels in electronic form along a phone line and is then printed on paper: I'll send you a fax with the details of the proposal. [ C or U ] (also fax machine) a device or system used to send and receive documents in electronic form along a phone line:
a message or document sent by fax. “Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012.
FAX definition: 1. a document that is sent or received using a special machine and a telephone line: 2. the system…. Learn more.
Fax, the transmission and reproduction of documents by wire or radio wave. Common fax machines are designed to scan printed textual and graphic material and then transmit the information through the telephone network to similar machines, where facsimiles are reproduced close to the form of the original documents.
Definition of fax noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. fax. noun. /fæks/ (also formal facsimile) (also fax machine) [countable] a machine that sends and receives documents in an electronic form along phone wires and then prints them. Before the internet, the fax was an essential piece of office equipment.
A fax or a fax machine is a piece of equipment that was used in the past to copy documents by sending information electronically along a phone line, and to receive copies that were sent in this way.
