Modem
German (Berlin)
/ˈmodem/
noun
Definitions
- modem; a device that encodes digital computer signals into analog telephone signals and vice-versa. It allows computers to communicate over a phone line.
Etymology
Borrowed from English modem.
Origin
English
modem
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- modem English
- modemless English
- nonmodem English
- smartmodem English
- softmodem English
- modeemi Finnish
- modem Hungarian
- modem Dutch, Flemish
- modem French
- модем Russian
- módem Spanish, Castilian
- modem Portuguese
- modem Swedish
- モデム Japanese
- modem Polish
- modem Serbo-Croatian
- модем Serbo-Croatian
- mòdem Catalan, Valencian
- modem Norman
- modem Vietnamese
- מודם Hebrew (modern)
- 모뎀 Korean