faxing Definition

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.
2a. A document received by such a machine

Example: Has a fax arrived for me this morning?
2b. loosely
A document sent by a fax machine
Example: Please send this fax by noon.
3. Also as adj.

Example: fax number
Example: 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.

Example: Please fax me by noon

Derivative: 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.