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Modems
A device that encodes digital computer signals into analog/analogue telephone signals and vice versa and allows computers to communicate over a phone line.
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noun
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A device that encodes digital computer signals into analog/analogue telephone signals and vice versa and allows computers to communicate over a phone line.
verb
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To transmit by modem.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Modems"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| baudnoun | (computing, telecommunications) A unit of data transmission symbol rate; the number of signalling events per second. |
| bpsnoun | (computing, informal) baud rate |
| dslnoun | (electronics) Initialism of digital subscriber line. [A family of technologies that provides digital data transmission over the wires of a local telephone network. Often, this notion is used for the Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL), the most commonly installed technical variety of DSL.] |
| routersnoun | (telecommunications) Any device that directs packets of information using the equivalent of Open Systems Interconnection layer 3 (network layer) information. Most commonly used in reference to Internet Protocol routers. |
| wirelessnoun | Not having any wires. |
| transceivernoun | A combined radio transmitter and receiver. |
| ethernetnoun | A computer network that complies with this set of standards. |
| telephonynoun | The study and application of telephone technology. |
| vocablenoun | (linguistics) A word or utterance, especially with reference to its form rather than its meaning. |
| prostnoun | A surname. |
| widebandnoun | (often attributive) A communications transmission rate between that of narrowband and broadband. |
| subscriber linenoun | a telephone connection |
| radiosnoun | (countable) A device that can capture (receive) the signal sent over radio waves and render the modulated signal as sound. |
| broadbandnoun | (Internet) An Internet connection provisioned over an existing service using alternate signal frequencies such as ADSL or a cable modem. |
| antennasnoun | An apparatus to receive or transmit electromagnetic waves and convert respectively to or from an electrical signal. |
| wpannoun | Initialism of wireless personal area network. |
| transmittersnoun | An electronic device that generates and amplifies a carrier wave, modulates it with a meaningful signal derived from speech, music, TV or other sources, and broadcasts the resulting signal from an antenna. |
| adaptersnoun | A device or application used to achieve operative compatibility between devices that otherwise are incompatible. |
| repeatersnoun | a 2010 Canadian thriller film directed by Carl Bessai, written by Arne Olsen, and starring Dustin Milligan, Amanda Crew, and Richard de Klerk as young drug addicts who find themselves stuck in a time loop. |
| asynchronous transfer modenoun | A broadband voice and data technology with quality (class) of service QoS transmission for sending and receiving voice, data, and multimedia information over a fiber-optic network. |
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