This is a shortening of Facsimile, and it refers to one fax machine sending a digital representation of a hardcopy over the phone lines to be received and printed out by another fax machine.
(noun) The print-out of information transmitted via text and/or graphic images over standard telephone lines. (verb) To transmit information via text and/or graphic images over standard telephone lines.
A scanner/printer combination that transmits text and graphics over telephone lines. It uses CCITT Group 3 data compression techniques. Small paper documents can be transmitted over long distances very quickly, but the information is not represented as structured data elements as in EDI.
The system or equipment used for the transmission of images, usually over the public telephone network. The image is scanned at the transmitter, reconstructed at the receiving station, and duplicated on some form of paper.
transmit information (primarily letters and printed documents) via electronic means
duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio
( FACS imile) The transmission of a printed page between remote locations, usually over telephone networks.
Facsimile transmission is the process through which documents are scanned, digitally encoded, transmitted, and decoded for printing on the other end. Fax on demand is a system by which callers can request documents or information through use of a touch-tone telephone pad, and documents are faxed to numbers indicated by caller.
Facsimile: System used to transmit textual or graphical images over standard telephone lines
1. n. Hard copy received from a facsimile machine. 2. v. To transmit an image, using a telephone system and facsimile machines.
Short for facsimile. A means of transmitting paper (and sometimes electronic) documents over phone lines. The output is usually a paper document. The output document itself is also called a fax. Also used as a verb meaning to use facsimile transmission.
Facsimile. A document sent over telephone lines, originally by means of a special facsimile machine which scans a document and transmits electrical signals to print a copy of the document on the other end. Now computers can send faxes with fax software and a modem, so a fax can be sent from computer to fax machine, from fax machine to computer, or from computer to computer without requiring a printout.
Fa cs() imile Machine The most common use in the marine environment is as a Wx Fax to receive, by radio, timely weather charts, forecasts, storm warnings and Gulf Stream information.
(abbreviation for facsimile) The transmission of a copy of a paper document over telephone lines using a fax machine or a computer equipped with a fax modem. The term may be used as either a noun or a verb.
A corruption of the word facsimile, literally meaning exact copy.
Facsimile. Transmission of a monochrome image of a page across the standard telephone system by dialing the telephone number of another Fax machine. International standards exist for several transmission speeds and display resolutions, although IBM promoted a standard of their own for a while. Rose from obscurity to universality during the 1980s, replacing the Telex and TWX. But Fax is not new. It had become quite popular in the 1930s within police departments for transmitting photographs (mug shots) of criminals.
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(1) A method for transmitting pictures by radio or telephone. (2) A picture received by means of fax.
Facsimile Transmission. The process of scanning graphic images to convert them into electronic signals, alter and adjust these signals to correctly reproduce the original, then transmit these electronic signals to produce a recorded likeness of the original on a photo sensitive material.
A facsimile; to transmit a facsimile electronically.
facsimile machine. A fax machine as an output device. Like the display and printer symbols, this can be used to indicate the destination of some output. Example: forwarding a message to somebody without an e-mail address can be done by selecting the fax symbol and entering a phone number. [test: &filing.cabinet;
A method of digitally copying a document then converting the copy to an analog signal to be transmitted to a remote location using standard phone lines. Because faxing isn’t exact, what is received at the other end is rarely a perfect copy, and usually just a "reasonable facsimile thereof" (thus the term facs—er, fax).
A method of transmitting graphics or text documents over a telecommunications facility. The image is scanned at the transmitter and reconstructed at the receiver to be duplicated on paper.
Memos and documents delivered over a facsimile machine.
(facsimile transmission) - A system that transmits pictures or prints electronically.
Is a facsimile or a facsimile device.
Facsimile terminal. The transmission of images via telephone lines for reproduction on paper.
short for facsimile which means copy or duplicate; used to produce a copy of a document similar to a photocopy
This is an electronic device that allows a user to issue a recipient a copy of a document as it appears via a specialized phone line.
Abbreviation for `facsimile¿, a device used to transmit a copy of an original document. The Inmarsat-A, B/M and mini-M systems support two-way fax transmissions. The Inmarsat C system is able to send only text messages (no graphics) to a fax terminal in the ship-to-shore direction. It is only possible to send text messages (no graphics) in the shore-to-ship direction by using a third party fax bureau.
Facsimile machines for sending and receiving images and written material. Almost all fax machines today use the CCITT Group 3 protocol. A higher performance protocol, CCITT Group 4, is available for ISDN.
An electronic device that transmits text or graphics material over telephone lines to other locations.
A process by which fixed graphic material including pictures, text, or images is scanned and the information converted into electrical signals which are transmitted via telephone to produce a paper copy of the graphics on the receiving fax machine. Some modems can be used to send and receive fax data.
transmission of images over the telephone network. Fax messages can be sent direct from a desktop computer fitted with a fax modem, or via a fax gateway.
Abbreviation for fascimile. The electronic transmission of copies of documents for reproduction at a remote location. The sending fax machine scans a paper image and converts the image into a form ... more
Slang for facsimile. A technology that takes paper from the sender and produces more paper that looks just like it at the recipient's end. You can use fax modems to eliminate the paper step at one end or both, but they may be less reliable than stand-alone fax machines. Email is cleaner, often cheaper, and more environmentally friendly, and the results are more useful in other programs. However, you can't easily send signatures or existing paper documents via email.
Equipment that will transmit and receive both typed and picture data over a phone line and produce hard copy output
(facsimile) - short for facsimile
Frequent abbreviation for facsimile equipment.
Document that can contain handwritten or typed text, illustrations, photographs, or other graphics. 9.5
The sending and receiving of exact duplicates of documents from one fax device to another through the switched telephone system.
Abbreviation for facsimile. The transmission of text or graphics over telephone lines in digitized form. á‹áŠáˆµ View
Short for facsimile. A process of transmitting documents by scanning them to digital, converting to analogue, transmitting over phone lines and reversing the process at the other end and printing. "Group 3" indicates the 3rd generation of faxes which transmits a page at 9600 baud in about a minute – with a normal resolution of 203 x 98 dpi and a fine resolution of 203 x 196.
Fax (short for facsimile - from Latin "fac simile", "make similar", i.e. "make a copy" - or telefacsimile) is a telecommunications technology used to transfer copies (facsimiles) of documents, especially using affordable devices operating over the telephone network. The word telefax is also used as a synonym.