modem

Plural: modems

Noun

• A device for converting data signals for transmission over lines.
• (from a combination of MOdulate and DEModulate) electronic equipment consisting of a device used to connect computers by a telephone line
• A device that encodes digital computer signals into analog telephone signals and vice versa, allowing computers to communicate over a phone line.

Verb

• To transmit by modem.

Examples

• Before the internet, Scrabble players couldn’t use a MODEM to connect for online games.