fax machine

Clipping of facsimile machine.

fax machine (plural fax machines)

1. A device which scans, transmits, receives and prints documents (faxes) transmitted by telephone.
   • 2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, Hamish Hamilton, page 91:

     I made my notes, by hand, collated all relevant requests, stood in the copy room by a noisy fax machine and slowly fed the documents into it, thinking of someone in New York – a dream city to me – waiting by a similar contraption as my document came through to them, at the exact same time I sent it, which felt so very modern in the doing of it, a triumph over distance and time.