Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fax machine

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.61 in modern English

Syllables: fax -ma-chine
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A device which scans, transmits, receives and prints documents (faxes) transmitted by telephone.

Example Sentences

"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."
"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 it, which felt so very modern in the doing of it, a triumph over distance and time."

Etymology

Clipped compound of facsimile machine.

Inflected Forms

fax machines (plural)

Synonyms

facsimile machine fax telecopier

Questions

What does fax machine mean?: A device which scans, transmits, receives and prints documents (faxes) transmitted by telephone.
Where does fax machine come from?: Clipped compound of facsimile machine.

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