Associations to the word «Modem»

Pictures for the word «Modem»

Wiktionary

MODEM, noun. A device that encodes digital computer signals into analog/analogue telephone signals and vice versa and allows computers to communicate over a phone line.
MODEM, verb. To transmit by modem.

Dictionary definition

MODEM, noun. (from a combination of MOdulate and DEModulate) electronic equipment consisting of a device used to connect computers by a telephone line.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne