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Fax   /fæks/   Listen
noun
fax  n.  A document which is a facsimile of another document, converted into electrical symbols by a facsimile machine at one telephone terminal, transmitted via telephone and printed on some form of paper at a facsimile machine at a second telephone terminal. A document transmitted using a computer at one or both ends may also be called a fax if the transmission protocol is similar to that used by telefax devices, i.e. if the originating or receiving device could be a telefax device.


verb
fax  v. t.  (past & past part. faxed; pres. part. faxing)  To transmit a copy of a document (a fax) over a telephone line using facsimile devices or the telefax protocol at both ends. See fax, n., and facsimile (2), n.





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"Fax" Quotes from Famous Books



... from any priestly function. It now regarded them as the special representatives of the despised element of sex in life.[290] The eccentric Tertullian had once declared that woman was janua Diaboli; nearly seven hundred years later, even the gentle and philosophic Anselm wrote: Femina fax est Satanae.[291] ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis
... by Ennius apud Macrob. Sat. vi. 4: "Interea fax Occidit, Oceanumque rubra tractim obruit aethra." See Columna on Enn. ...
— The Iliad of Homer (1873) • Homer
... ut merito locum in republica summo proximum ad supremum usque diem tenuerit." (De Rebus Gestis, fol. 9.) Martyr, noticing the cardinal's death, bestows the following brief but comprehensive panegyric on him. "Periit Gonsalus Mendotiae, domus splendor et lucida fax; periit quem universa colebat Hispania, quem exteri etiam principes venerabantur, quem ordo cardineus collegam sibi esse gloriabatur." Opus ...
— The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella The Catholic, V2 • William H. Prescott


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