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fax noun (faxes) 1 a machine that scans documents electronically and transmits a photographic image of the contents to a receiving machine by telephone line. 2 a a document received by such a machine • Has a fax arrived for me this morning? b loosely a document sent by a fax machine • Please send this fax by noon. 3 Also as adj • fax number • fax machine. verb (faxes, faxed, faxing) 1 to transmit a photographic image of (a document) by this means. 2 to send a communication to someone by fax • Please fax me by noon. faxable adj.
ETYMOLOGY: Fax machines have become commonplace since the 1980s, but fax was first used in the 1940s referring to an early type of fax transmitted by radio: contraction and respelling of facsimile.