faxの意味・使い方・発音

fax

英 [fæks] 美 [fæks]

ファックス Fax

ファクシミリの略。

fax: fax: [20] Fax is a sleeper of a word. The technology of facsimile telegraphy, by which a document is scanned and its image transmitted via a telegraphic link, had been around since the 1870s, but the word fax was not invented for it (in the USA, by the simple expedient of removing the end of facsimile) until the 1940s. Even then, faxes were not widely known about outside the world of commerce, and it was only in the 1970s that the technology, and with it the word (by now a verb as well as a noun), became an everyday phenomenon. Facsimile [17], incidentally, is simply a lexicalization of Latin fac simile ‘make similar’.
fax (n.): 1948, in reference to the technology, short for facsimile (telegraphy). Meaning "a facsimile transmission" is by 1980. The verb attested by 1970. Related: Faxed; faxing.
Futurists predict that a "fax" terminal in the house or business office may someday complement or even replace the mail-carrier. ["Scientific American," 1972]

1. The machine automatically downloads the required information to his or her fax .: マシンは、必要な情報を自動的にFAX機にダウンロードすることができます。

2.Pop it in the post，or get your secretary to fax it.: ポストに投函して、さもなくばあなたの秘書にファックスを送らせます。

3.These days,cartonists send in their work by fax .: 現在、漫画家はファクシミリで作品を送信している。

4.I sent him a long fax ，saying I didn 't need a maid.: 私は彼に長いファックスを送って、私はメイドが必要ではないと言った。