modem
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3.5
- noun
- /ˈmoʊdɛm/
- Specialized
:
módem
- The modem allows us to send data over telephone lines quickly.
- computer modem
- cable modem
- modem access
Cisco was selling high speed modems and products in a dial up era.
- Cisco was selling high speed modems and products in a dial up era.
- Then when it goes from your modem to the Internet, it encrypts.
- Think of it as as back in the days of dial up modems.
- One of the first ways in which we had ubiquitous Internet access was many years ago when the dial up modem became available.
- Tell whoever it has already requested the same information again before it's even gone out of the the modem.
- We have power based Ethernet things, frequency Multiplex cable TV, cable modems for transmitting things, microwaves, or any combination of that.
- So if I'm on the same network as you, I can essentially control the traffic, you know, as if I was the modem or router.
- Maybe you had like a dial up modem, right?
- But like modem issues have zero of them.
- The speeds, the gigabytes, the modem, the text, the Wi-Fi, the AirDrop.
Examples
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The robot can be equipped with a radio modem that communicates with a base unit in the hospital.
Academic text (1995) -
Third, it had to connect easily to my computer for fax and modem communications.
Academic text (1994) -
Here, she could write and send her work by modem to any point on earth.
Fiction book (1996) -
The next step was to link them through a modem for competition with one another.
Academic text (1990) -
I had to reset the modem the other day.
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We got a modem line hooked up with the data base in New York.
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Then when it goes from your modem to the Internet, it encrypts.
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Access to Econet requires a computer, a telephone fine, a modem, and a subscription fee.
Academic text (1992) -
Cisco was selling high speed modems and products in a dial up era.
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Many of us live in a world of computers, modems, call waiting, TVs, and VCRs.
Academic text (1998)
Synonyms
A device that changes digital signals into sounds and back so data can be sent over a phone line
Antonyms
Compounds
- Archaic
A device that changes digital signals into sounds and back so data can be sent over a phone line
How Fast
Surface Forms
Morphology
modem = modulator + demodulator (semi-transparent) = modulator + demodulator
Formally a contraction of 'modulator' + 'demodulator' so the composition is clear, but the meaning is specialized and may not be obvious to average learners.
Etymology
Modem is a short form of modulator-demodulator. A modulator 'changes' computer data into sounds that can travel on a telephone line and a demodulator 'changes' those sounds back, so a modem is like a 'translator' that lets a computer send and receive information over telephone lines.