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Definition of Modem

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

Definition of Modem

1. Noun. A device that encodes digital computer signals into analog/analogue telephone signals and ''vice versa'' and allows computers to communicate over a phone line. ¹

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Definition of Modem

1. to transmit by modem (a device for converting signals from one form to another) [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Modem

Literary usage of Modem

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The British Drama: Comprehending the Best Plays in the English Language by Sir Walter Scott, Walter Scott (1804)
"modem. Den he grow bold : she grow weak, he tro her down, ... modem. Den dou will refuse nothing dat I bid dee ? Rax. Don't bid me he damned then. modem. ..."

2. The Republic of Plato by Plato, Benjamin Jowett (1881)
"... but of discord and dissolution, just touching the question which has been often treated in modem times by theologians and philosophers, of the negative ..."

3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"... share of each individual was four times as considerable, a fourth part only of the modem taxes of France was levied on the Imperial province of Gaul. ..."

4. A Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British ...by British Museum Dept. of Printed Books, George Knottesford Fortescue by British Museum Dept. of Printed Books, George Knottesford Fortescue (1891)
"Lectures on Medieval and modem History, pp.399. Or/. 1886. 8*. 9073. e. 13. SYMES (JE) The Prelude to Modern History, pp. 139. Lond. 1890. 8°. 9009. aaa. ..."

5. The Dictionary of English History edited by Sidney Low, Frederick Sanders Pulling (1896)
"... are a few meagre entries in the chronicles, Welsh ami English, of battles. Philology and local antiquities may give something more. Fora modem ..."

6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... Dania «feri» el modem» to remark that it was written before the rise of the modem historical school ; Annales ..."

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