fax

noun

ˈfaks 

1

: facsimile sense 2

2

: a device used to send or receive facsimile communications

3

: a facsimile communication

fax verb

Examples of fax in a Sentence

She sent me a copy of her report by fax.

She sent me a fax of her report.

Recent Examples on the Web

Small businesses and individuals didn’t feel compelled to switch from fax machines to computers: Why buy expensive new machinery and learn how to use it, when fax worked fine and everybody in Japan used it anyway? —Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2025

The current sequential process lags commercial product cycles and delivers technology several generations behind, which is the equivalent of supplying flip phones and fax machines to our warfighters. —Michael Brown, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025

The city also will accept simple permit submissions with credit card payments through fax machine. —Kathryn Kovalenko, Twin Cities, 4 Aug. 2025

In a class-action lawsuit against McKesson, led by McLaughlin, the district court did not distinguish between advertisements received on traditional fax machines and those received through online fax services. —Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025

Word History

Etymology

by shortening & alteration

First Known Use

1937, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Phrases Containing fax

• fax modem

Rhymes for fax

• axe
• backs
• blacks
• cracks
• flax
• hacks
• jacks
• knacks
• lacks
• lakhs
• lax
• macs

Kids Definition

fax

noun

ˈfaks 

1

: facsimile sense 2

2

: a machine used to send or receive facsimile communications

3

: a facsimile communication

fax verb