Dictionary

fax machine en · NOUN

Etymology

Clipped compound of facsimile machine.

Meanings

1. A device which scans, transmits, receives and prints documents (faxes) transmitted by telephone.
   • Rachel inserted the entire stack into the hydrolab's fax machine. Knowing only a few fax numbers by heart, she had limited choices, but she had already made up her mind who would be receiving these pages and her note. Holding her breath, she carefully typed in the person’s fax number. 2001, Dan Brown, Deception Point, →ISBN, page 481:
   • I made my notes, by hand, collated all relevant requests, stood in the copy room by a noisy fax machine and slowly fed the documents into it, thinking of someone in New York – a dream city to me – waiting by a similar contraption as my document came through to them, at the exact same time I sent it, which felt so very modern in the doing of it, a triumph over distance and time. 2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 91:

Forms

Synonyms

fax · telecopier · facsimile machine

Translations (28)

tr belgegeçer (device which scans, transmits, receives and prints faxes) · it telefax (device which scans, transmits, receives and prints faxes) · is faxtæki (device which scans, transmits, receives and prints faxes) · yue fax機 /fax机 (device which scans, transmits, receives and prints faxes) · sv telefax (device which scans, transmits, receives and prints faxes) · mi waea whakaahua (device which scans, transmits, receives and prints faxes) · de Fax (device which scans, transmits, receives and prints faxes) · cmn 傳真機 /传真机 (device which scans, transmits, receives and prints faxes) · el συυή τηλεομοιοτυπίας (device which scans, transmits, receives and prints faxes) · is fax (device which scans, transmits, receives and prints faxes) · ru факс (device which scans, transmits, receives and prints faxes) · fr fax (device which scans, transmits, receives and prints faxes) · it telecopiatore (device which scans, transmits, receives and prints faxes) · tr faks cihazı (device which scans, transmits, receives and prints faxes) · la similarium (device which scans, transmits, receives and prints faxes) · is bréfsími (device which scans, transmits, receives and prints faxes) · it fax (device which scans, transmits, receives and prints faxes) · tr faks makinesi (device which scans, transmits, receives and prints faxes) · pl faks (device which scans, transmits, receives and prints faxes) · sv fax (device which scans, transmits, receives and prints faxes) · tr belgeç (device which scans, transmits, receives and prints faxes) · yue 傳真機 /传真机 (device which scans, transmits, receives and prints faxes) · ru факсими́льный аппара́т (device which scans, transmits, receives and prints faxes) · fr télécopieur (device which scans, transmits, receives and prints faxes) · fi faksi (device which scans, transmits, receives and prints faxes) · it telecopiatrice (device which scans, transmits, receives and prints faxes) · de Faxgerät (device which scans, transmits, receives and prints faxes) · de Fernkopierer (device which scans, transmits, receives and prints faxes)