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• Fax Machine

  Short for facsimile machine, a device that can send or receive pictures and text over a telephone line. Fax machines work by digitizing an image — dividing it into a grid of dots. Each dot is either on or off, depending on whether it is black or white. Electronically, each dot is represented by a […]

• fax modem

  A device you can attach to a personal computer that enables you to transmit and receive electronic documents as faxes. A fax modem is like a regular modem except that it is designed to transmit documents to a fax machine or to another fax modem. Some, but not all, fax modems do double duty as […]

• fax over Internet Protocol

  (pronounced as separate letters) FoIP, short for fax over Internet Protocol, the technology that enables the internetworking of fax machines with a packet-based network. Using FoIP, a fax is transmitted via the Internet rather than the traditional method of sending faxes via the telephone line. Using FoIP, the digital data from the fax machine is […]

• fdisk

  A DOS and Windows utility that prepares a hard disk for formatting by creating one primary partition on the disk.

• feathering

  In desktop publishing, feathering is the process of softening the edges of an image in the foreground so that it blends into the background image with less contrast.

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