2 entries found
modem (n.)
by 1937 in reference to electrical transmission of sound and other signals, contracted from
modulator-demodulator
; see
modulator
.
codec (n.)
by 1970, an abbreviation from
compressor-decompressor
or
coder-decoder
, on model of
modem
.
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