fax machine

American  

[faks-muh-sheen] / ˈfæks məˌʃin /

noun

fax machines plural

1. a machine for faxing documents, photographs, and other flat media.

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fax machine Scientific  

/ făks /

1. A device that sends and receives printed pages or images over telephone lines by digitizing the material with an internal optical scanner and transmitting the information as electronic signals.

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Example Sentences

The bad news is that just like your fax machine, a lot of the key components of that rally aren’t around today.

From Barron's • Apr. 27, 2026

Email’s invention led to the collapse of the interoffice memo and the fax machine, freeing workers from the need to communicate in real time.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

Cyrus, who doesn’t have a fax machine handy, said she has to pick up faxes at her lawyer’s office.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2024

People would come in not only to buy milk and pick up the mail, Miller recalls, but to use the fax machine, find a plumber or just to swap gossip.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 17, 2024

Sharp introduced the first low- priced fax machine in 1984, and sold about 80,000 of those machines in the United States in that first year.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell