1An exact copy of a document made by electronic scanning and transmitted as data by telecommunications links.

1. 1.1mass noun The production or transmission of faxes.
   传真
   he received the report by fax

   他收到了传真过来的报告。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Initially art was exchanged through telecommunications networks such as the telephone, fax, slo-scan video, and now as streamed data.
   • Most of China's call centres now provide 24-hour continuous service and provide voice IP, email, fax, text and video IP services.
   • Overseas buyers would traditionally have had to interact or purchase over the phone or by fax.
   • This time, however, it comes bouncing down the satellite phone, and by fax and email.
   • Strategies to test effective e-mail and fax transmissions also were discussed.
   • Remember to consider all communication media, including e-mail correspondence, telephone calls, and fax transmissions.
   • Subsequently we have had many further meetings in the U.K. and in Bombay, while staying in touch via fax and phone.
   • Now I'm not sure what's happening as I can't get through to them by fax or phone.
   • The Air Force and Park Service are accepting comments by mail, fax, voice mall, or e-mail through March 7.
   • The only question now is which internet fax service is the best one for your needs.
   • Along with store-and-forward fax transmission and streamed voice mail, IVR sessions can be treated as data applications.
   • She consults by fax on production details and quality problems (the display includes color photocopies of works in progress).
   • Enforced by the FTC, the Mail or Telephone Order Rule applies to orders placed by phone, fax or the Internet.
   • But the site is secure and accepts orders on-line, by fax, or by phone.
   • The fax transmission details indicate that the document was faxed at 4.34 pm on 12 October.
   • The Call Recorder Archive software can be used to view recorded fax transmissions.
   • I process one application, only to find another's just arrived by fax.
   • In the old days it was all done on paper: Scouts would send in reports from games in the field by mail or fax, and the reports would be filed into thick binders.
   • Subsequent data relay is associated with a device ID number and can be by phone / fax / web to a designated health system area.
   • In those days, the tools at a marketer's disposal included direct mail, fax, phone and interactive television.
2. 1.2 A machine for transmitting and receiving faxes.
   传真机
   the equipment consists of four word processors, a fax, and a photocopier

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   • The double-ring sounded; the fax machine answered, and all was right with the world.
   • One of Duncan's clients discovered he spent 336 hours a year at the fax machine.
   • So I just unhooked it from the computer and hooked it into the fax machine.
   • However, instead of sending the document, the fax machine keeps spitting it out again.
   • It is a type of online services that provide subscribers with the ability to send and receive faxes without a fax machine.
   • The only light inside came from a flickering computer screen and the winking of a fax machine.
   • So if you don't buy a filter for every phone on the line, your calls will sound like an angry duel between a fax machine and a modem.
   • All of a sudden, the fax machine beeped and the document printed out.
   • Does any hardware device feel slower or clunkier than the fax machine?
   • The two delivery men wheeled in a collection of cartons containing computers, monitors, telephones, a printer and a fax machine.
   • Till now, you had to own a special machine - a fax machine, which was only made to send and receive faxes.
   • The bad news is that they seem to be swimming in data generated by virtually everyone with a telephone, a computer or a fax machine.
   • So I went and did my photocopying on the fax machine instead.
   • This is to identify the fax machine to which the document will be sent.
   • There needs to evidence of local demand and the supplier must have a fax machine to receive orders.
   • There must be dozens of people looking at this strange image spooling off their fax machine this morning.
   • The document was then passed through a fax machine several times in order to appear authentic.
   • Some of these media, such as the fax machine and the telephone, are direct.
   • The cardboard boxes that the fax machine, printer, and computer had come in were still piled up along one wall.
   • The phone just rang and rang, and never got answered, and my fax machine kept timing out.

1Send (a document) by fax.

1. 1.1 Contact (someone) by fax.
   用传真与（某人）联系
   to obtain a brochure fax the agent

   欲获宣传小册，请传真联系代理商。

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   • People should write to their MP rather than fax him.
   • Sorry if you've already faxed but please fax them back and tell them to deliver it on Friday.
   • He kindly faxed David the list of who voted for and against the bill.
   • I am faxing you, by the way, using the website.
   • This can be a big problem especially when some less than honest fax marketing companies have been known to fake phone logs to pretend they had permission to fax people.
   • If you haven't faxed your member of Congress in support of the bill, please do so today.
   • Tens of thousands of voters have called or faxed their Members of Congress in opposition to the bill.
   • To that end, why not fax your MP?
   • When this debate was last raised in the House, he faxed me and said that the figures I gave were wrong.
   • I was faxing him from my home to his home - we didn't have our secretaries involved.
   • Readers who might be interested in bidding for one of the auction prizes can do so in advance of the big day by calling or faxing the foundation office.
   • I faxed him a month or so ago about this - even in the face of futility I had to.
   • Further details may be obtained by phoning or faxing him.
   • The customer initiates an expression of interest by filling out something on the Web site or faxing us.
   • And the chief of police of Ft. Bragg faxed us this morning that they have just made an arrest in a murder up there.
   • Eastern Cape entrants can obtain their entry forms from her by faxing her.
   • I faxed him yesterday and said ‘if you are really serious, we can make a game plan’.
   • I got a good response from her when I faxed her, but I also went to meet her face to face once.
   • A compromise bill would have limited the time frame to 48 hours in which a company would be allowed to fax someone after a verbal request, but the bill was passed via committee with the time limit being seven years.

Non-standard spelling of ‘facts’

有关食品问题的真实情况。