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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
fax/faks/
noun an exact copy of a document made by electronic scanning and transmitted as data by telecommunications links.

■ the production or transmission of documents in this way.

■ (also fax machine) a machine for transmitting and receiving such documents.

verb send (a document) by fax.

■ contact by fax.

– origin 1940s: abbrev. of facsimile.
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