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n. A device for transmitting usually digital data over telephone wires by modulating the data into an audio signal to send it and demodulating an audio signal into data to receive it.

v. To transmit or be transmitted by a modem.

n. A device that encodes digital computer signals into analog/analogue telephone signals and vice versa and allows computers to communicate over a phone line.

n. 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; also called modulator-demodulator. The speed of transmission of information by a modem is usually measured in units of baud, equivalent to bits per second.

n. (from a combination of MOdulate and DEModulate) electronic equipment consisting of a device used to connect computers by a telephone line

"I am hoping that the DSL modem is going to protect the computer probably wishful thinking."

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modulator-demodulator    baud   

acoustic modem   

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