# modem

Pronunciation: say "MOH-duhm" US /ˈmoʊdəm/, UK /ˈməʊdəm/

## Noun

1. A device that converts digital computer signals into analog signals for transmission over a phone line, and converts the incoming analog signals back into digital form.
   - Simple: A device that changes computer signals so they can travel over a phone line, and then changes them back again.
   - _She plugged the modem into the phone jack and waited for the dial tone._
   - _Early modems transmitted data at just 300 bits per second._

## Verb

2. To transmit data to another computer by means of a modem.
   - Simple: To send computer data to another machine using a modem.
   - _In the early nineties, researchers would modem datasets between universities overnight._
   - _She modemed the manuscript to her publisher just before midnight._

## Origin

A shortened blend of "modulator-demodulator."

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/modem (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).