Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An electronic device that converts electronic signals into sound waves, and sound waves into electronic signals, used to transmit information between computers by the use of ordinary telephone lines; usually called a
modem .
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Examples
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The idea of pushing data down a telephonic connection through the intermediary of an acoustically coupled modulator-demodulator?
The New Retro Greg Tannahill 2009
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Ah, the modulator-demodulator, better known as the modem.
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If he were not being paid to be amongst David Bradley’s stable of boys and girls who issue opinion, wouldn’t Brian Williams be dismissing him as a “Vinny” from the Bronx who’s got a modulator-demodulator and lives in an efficiency?
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