modem
A device that encodes digital computer signals into analog telephone signals and vice versa, allowing computers to communicate over a phone line.
A kind of
- electronic equipment
Kinds of modem
- acoustic modem
Related words
- Linmodem
- cable modem
- fax modem
- radio modem
- wireless modem
- USB modem
- nonmodem
- softmodem
- modemless
- Winmodem
- null modem
- smartmodem
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “modem” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.