Fax

Pronunciation

• enPR: făks, IPA: /fæks/
• Homophones: facts informal US and Canada pronunciation
• Rhymes: -æks

From Middle English, from Old English feax ("hair, head of hair"), from Proto-Germanic *fahsą ("hair, mane"), from Proto-Indo-European *poḱs- ("hair", literally that which is combed, shorn, or plucked), from Proto-Indo-European *peḱ- ("to comb, shear, pluck"). Cognate with Dutch vas ("headhair"), German Fachs ("headhair"), Norwegian faks ("mane"), Icelandic fax ("mane"), Sanskrit पक्ष्मन् (pakṣman, "eyelash, hair, filament").

Full definition of fax

Noun

1. (obsolete or UK dialectal) The hair of the head.

Derived terms

• faxed
• Fairfax
• Halifax

From facsimile, first attested 1979.

Noun

1. A fax machine or a document received and printed by one.

Verb

1. To send a document via a fax machine.