modem

To transmit by modem.

Noun

  1. A device that encodes digital computer signals into analog telephone signals and vice versa, allowing computers to communicate over a phone line.
    • Choose and rent, over PC and modem and fiber-optic line, from tens of thousands of second-run films, documentaries, the occasional sport, old beloved non—‘Happy Days’ programs, wholly new programs, cultural stuff, and...

Origin

Clipping of modulator-demodulator

Forms

modems

Derived

cable modem fax modem Linmodem modemless nonmodem null modem radio modem smartmodem softmodem USB modem Winmodem wireless modem

Verb

  1. To transmit by modem.
    • Personal modeming is most prevalent in the U.S., where a modem generally doesn't have huge taxes slapped on it, and after-tax income is comparatively high. - 1992, Jim Kimble, How to get started with modems, page 73:
    • “Books” can even be faxed or modemed to you! - 1994, Carole Marsh, Jurassic Ark! Alaska Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Creatures, page 7:
    • He had to modem in to the agency and say that there was an emergency […] - 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 19:

Forms

modems modeming modemming modemed modemmed