(from a combination of MOdulate and DEModulate) electronic equipment consisting of a device used to connect computers by a telephone line
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modem::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | electronic equipment |
| Has types | acoustic modem |
Examples of modem
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You can also use the phone as a modem by hooking it up to a computer's USB port.
From the businessweek.com
Sprint believes this is the smallest USB cell modem on the market at the moment.
From the washingtonpost.com
It had a built-in 300 baud modem that let you dial in to online bulletin boards.
From the dallasnews.com
Every instrument sounded as if it was being played through an old dial-up modem.
From the npr.org
Alternatively, you may be able to use your cellular phone as the laptop's modem.
From the usatoday.com
Instead, what he found on the desk was a modem still in the box and a dead line.
From the businessweek.com
The help desk's staff switched on the server's modem, and CSC's team was inside.
From the forbes.com
FlipStart has built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, plus a pretty speedy cellular modem.
From the usatoday.com
The same document can be transmitted via the average modem in around 50 seconds.
From the newscientist.com
- (from a combination of MOdulate and DEModulate) electronic equipment consisting of a device used to connect computers by a telephone line
- A modem (modulator-demodulator) is a device that modulates an analog carrier signal to encode digital information, and also demodulates such a carrier signal to decode the transmitted information. ...
- A modem (modulator-demodulator) is a network hardware device that modulates one or more carrier wave signals to encode digital information for transmission and demodulates signals to decode the transmitted information. The goal is to produce a signal that can be transmitted easily and decoded to reproduce the original digital data...
- Modem is a fictional character in the DC Universe. He first appeared in Keith Giffen's Suicide Squad vol. 2, #2 (December 2001).
- A device that encodes digital computer signals into analog/analogue telephone signals and vice versa and allows computers to communicate over a phone line
- (Modems) Connect private data over public telephone circuits using analog signals
- A device that connects a computer to a phone line. A telephone for a computer. A modem allows a computer to talk to other computers through the phone system. Basically, modems do for computers what a telephone does for humans. ...
- Device that converts data from analog to digital and back again.
- Device for the transmission of data via dial-up networking.
