modem
pronunciation
How to pronounce modem in British English:
UK [ˈməʊdem]
How to pronounce modem in American English:
US [ˈmoʊdem]
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- Noun:
- (from a combination of MOdulate and DEModulate) electronic equipment consisting of a device used to connect computers by a telephone line
Word Origin
- modem (n.)
- "device to convert digital signals to analog and vice versa," 1958, coined from first elements of modulator + demodulator.
Example
- 1. Watch metricom 's ricochet modem service , an early entry in this market .
- 2. Modem agricultural development in circulating agricultural zone project .
- 3. Modem constitutionalism in china under traditional intuitional thinking .
- 4. Rapid reading is an important reading skill in modem information society .
- 5. New country construction is an important subject of our socialist modem construction during a pertly long period .