faxest

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fax

[faks]

Telecommunications.

–noun

1.	facsimile (def. 2).

–adjective

2.	facsimile (def. 5).

–verb (used with object)

3.	to transmit a facsimile of (printed matter, photographs, or the like) electronically: Fax the information to all our branch offices.

Origin:
by shortening and resp.

[fak-sim-uh-lee]

noun, verb, -led, -le⋅ing, adjective

–noun

1.	an exact copy, as of a book, painting, or manuscript.

Also called fax. Telecommunications.

a.	a method or device for transmitting documents, drawings, photographs, or the like, by means of radio or telephone for exact reproduction elsewhere.

b.	an image transmitted by such a method.

3.	dropout (def. 5).

–verb (used with object)

4.	to reproduce in facsimile; make a facsimile of.

–adjective

Also, fax. Telecommunications.

a.	(of an image) copied by means of facsimile: facsimile mail.

b.	(of a method or device) used to produce a facsimile: facsimile transmission.

Origin:
1655–65; earlier fac simile make the like, equiv. to L fac (impv. of facere) + simile, n. use of neut. of similis like; see simile

Synonyms:
1. replica, likeness. 1, 4. duplicate.

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