WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025
fax /fæks/USA pronunciation  n. 
  1. TelecommunicationsAlso called facsimile. 
    • [uncountable] a method for transmitting documents, drawings, photographs, or the like by telephone lines for exact reproduction elsewhere.
    • [countable] a machine (ˈfax maˌchine,) for doing this:Our office has a fax.
    • [countable] an exact copy or reproduction transmitted in this way:I got the fax.

v. 
  1. Telecommunicationsto transmit (documents, drawings, photographs, or the like) by fax: [+ object]I'll fax the documents.[+ object + to + object]I'll fax the documents to you.[+ object + object]I'll fax you the documents.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
fax  (faks),USA pronunciation [Telecommunications.]
n. 
    1. Telecommunicationsfacsimile (def. 2).

    adj. 
    1. Telecommunicationsfacsimile (def. 5).

    v.t. 
    1. Telecommunicationsto transmit a facsimile of (printed matter, photographs, or the like) electronically:Fax the information to all our branch offices.
    • by shortening and respelling, respelled

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
fax / fæks/
  1. Also: fax machine
    short for facsimile machine
  2. short for facsimile transmission
  1. (transitive) to send (a message, document, etc) by fax

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