telephone modem

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telephone modem [′tel·ə‚fōn ′mō‚dem]

(electronics)

A piece of equipment that modulates and demodulates one or more separate telephone circuits, each containing one or more telephone channels; it may include multiplexing and demultiplexing circuits, individual amplifiers, and carrier-frequency sources.

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