Liczba mnoga: faxes

Short for facsimile. The transmission of text or graphics over telephone lines in digitized form. Conventional fax machines scan an original document, transmit an image of the document as a bit map, and reproduce the received image on a printer. Resolution and encoding are standardized in the CCITT Groups 1–4 recommendations. Fax images can also be sent and received by microcomputers equipped with fax hardware and software. See also CCITT Groups 1–4.
(common name for facsimile transmission or telefax)
The transmission of images over a telecommunications link, usually the telephone network. When placed on a fax machine, the original image is scanned by a transmitting device and converted into coded signals, which travel via the telephone lines to the receiving fax machine, where an image is created that is a copy of the original. Photographs as well as printed text and drawings can be sent. The standard transmission takes place at 4,800 or 9,600 bits of information per second.
The world’s first fax machine, the pantélégraphe, was invented by Italian physicist Giovanni Caselli 1866, over a century before the first electronic model came on the market. Standing over 2 m/6.5 ft high, it transmitted by telegraph nearly 5,000 handwritten documents and drawings between Paris and Lyon in its first year.
(Informal) 1. A facsimile machine; a device for transmitting a copy of a document electronically.
(Informal) 2. A document transmitted by a facsimile machine.

(Homonym: facts )
To send something via a facsimile machine; SYN. telefax, facsimile.

Liczba mnoga: fax copies

Liczba mnoga: fax machines

Short for facsimile machine. A device that scans pages, converts the images of those pages to a digital format consistent with the international facsimile standard, and transmits the image through a telephone line. A fax machine also receives such images and prints them on paper. See also scan (definition 2).

Liczba mnoga: fax modems

A modem that sends (and possibly receives) data encoded in a fax format (typically CCITT fax format), which a fax machine or another modem decodes and converts to an image. The image must already have been encoded on the host computer. Text and graphic documents can be converted into fax format by special software usually provided with the modem; paper documents must first be scanned in. Fax modems may be internal or external and may combine fax and conventional modem capabilities. See also fax, modem.
Modem capable of transmitting and receiving data in the form of a fax.
A normal fax machine sends data in binary form down a telephone line, in a similar way to a modem. A modem can therefore act as a fax machine, given suitable software. This means a document does not need to be printed before faxing and an incoming fax can be viewed before printing out on a plain-paper printer. However, the computer must be permanently turned on in order to receive faxes.
A separate scanner is needed to fax information created outside the computer (such as a picture).

Liczba mnoga: fax on demands

An automated system that makes information available for request by telephone. When a request is made, the system faxes the information to the telephone number given in the request. Acronym: FOD.

Liczba mnoga: fax programs

A computer application that allows the user to send, receive, and print fax transmissions. See also fax.

Liczba mnoga: fax servers

A computer on a network capable of sending and receiving fax transmissions to and from other computers on the network. See also fax, server (definition 1).

Liczba mnoga: faxings

Liczba mnoga: Faxons

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