Glossary of fax terms

This is a glossary of fax-related terms, derived from the Glossary of Telecommunication Terms published as Federal Standard 1037C. Please see the Federal Standard article for copyright-related issues, as not all parts of the source document are in the public domain.

analog facsimile equipment -- aperture distortion -- aspect ratio -- black facsimile transmission -- black recording -- black signal -- center frequency -- confirmation to receive -- continuous tone copy -- contouring -- cooperation factor -- density -- diametral index of cooperation -- digital facsimile equipment -- direction of scanning -- direct recording -- drum factor -- drum speed -- electrochemical recording -- electrolytic recording -- electronic line scanning -- elemental area -- facsimile (FAX) -- flood projection -- frame -- graphics -- halftone characteristic -- hard copy -- horizontal resolution -- index of cooperation -- Kendall effect -- landscape mode -- line-to-line correlation -- maximum keying frequency -- maximum modulating frequency -- multipath -- multiple-spot scanning -- noisy black -- noisy white -- nominal linewidth -- pel -- phasing -- photosensitive recording -- picture black -- picture frequency -- picture white -- portrait mode -- record communication -- recording spot -- record medium -- reproduction speed -- run-length encoding -- scanning -- scanning direction -- scanning line -- signal contrast -- simple scanning -- skew -- solid-state scanning -- spot projection -- spot size -- spot speed -- stagger -- start-record signal -- stop-record signal -- stroke speed -- synchronizing -- synchronizing pilot -- tailing -- total line length -- transmission time -- transverse redundancy check (TRC) -- underlap -- white facsimile transmission -- white signal -- X-dimension of recorded spot -- X-dimension of scanning spot -- Y-dimension of recorded spot -- Y-dimension of scanning spot