Definition of "modulator-demodulator" []

• 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; usually called a modem. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "The idea of pushing data down a telephonic connection through the intermediary of an acoustically coupled modulator-demodulator?"
• "Ah, the modulator-demodulator, better known as the modem."
• "If he were not being paid to be amongst David Bradley’s stable of boys and girls who issue opinion, wouldn’t Brian Williams be dismissing him as a “Vinny” from the Bronx who’s got a modulator-demodulator and lives in an efficiency?"