fax modem

noun

Computers.

1. a modem that can send and receive faxes, as documents or pictures.

Word History and Origins

Origin of fax modem¹

1985–90

Example Sentences

“Don’t let a fax/modem slow you now.”

From The New Yorker

Dad has a CD-ROM encyclopedia, a fax modem, and a Web navigator that gets hundreds of information services.

From Literature

Hoagland had furnished the place with a three-bay sound partition, each bay fitted with a dedicated phone line and laptop with fax/modem.

From Literature

As long as I was shopping around, I bought a vintage external Newton fax/modem, capable of operating at a blistering 2400-bps.

From Time

But if you buy a fast FAX modem it works fine.

From Project Gutenberg