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Fax vs Scanner - What's the difference?

fax | scanner |

As nouns the difference between fax and scanner

is that fax is fax (machine) while scanner is .

fax

English

(wikipedia fax)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The hair of the head.
    • Derived terms
    * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Etymology 2

    From (facsimile), first attested 1979.

    Noun

    (faxes)
  • A fax machine or a document received and printed by one.

    • Verb

    (es)
  • To send a document via a fax machine.

    • scanner

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A device which scans documents in order to convert them to a digital medium.
    • He put the picture in the scanner , then e-mailed a copy of it to his family.
  • A radio receiver which iterates through a sequence of frequencies to detect signal.
  • A device which uses radiation (ultrasound, X-ray, etc.) to generate images of tissue or surfaces for diagnostic purposes.
  • A device which uses optics to detect printed data (such as a barcode).
  • One who scans.

    • Derived terms

    * * full body scanner * millimeter wave scanner * X-ray scanner

    Descendants

    * German: (l)

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