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 are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats