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fax machine

fax machine noun: a device which scans, transmits, receives and prints documents (faxes) transmitted by telephone.

Noun

fax machine (plural fax machines)

  1. A device which scans, transmits, receives and prints documents (faxes) transmitted by telephone.
    • Rachel inserted the entire stack into the hydrolab's fax machine. Knowing only a few fax numbers by heart, she had limited choices, but she had already made up her mind who would be receiving these pages and her note. Holding her breath, she carefully typed in the person’s fax number.2001, Dan Brown, Deception Point, →ISBN, page 481
    • I made my notes, by hand, collated all relevant requests, stood in the copy room by a noisy fax machine and slowly fed the documents into it, thinking of someone in New York – a dream city to me – waiting by a similar contraption as my document came through to them, at the exact same time I sent...2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 91

fax machine meaning in Tamil

fax machine in Tamil

தொலைப்பதிவி

Synonyms of fax machine

Forms of fax machine

pluralfax machines

Origin of fax machine

Clipped compound of facsimile machine.

Questions about fax machine

What does fax machine mean?
Fax machine means a device which scans, transmits, receives and prints documents (faxes) transmitted by telephone.
What is fax machine in Tamil?
Fax machine in Tamil is தொலைப்பதிவி. See Fax machine meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is fax machine?
Fax machine is a noun.
What is the plural of fax machine?
The plural of fax machine is fax machines.

Words near fax machine in the dictionary

  1. Fawzy
  2. fax
  3. fax bomb
  4. fax bombs
  5. fax democracy
  6. fax machine
  7. fax machines
  8. fax modem
  9. fax modems
  10. fax number
  11. fax numbers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fax machine (page history and authors); fax machine (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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