Hub vs. Modem

Hubnoun

The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave.

Hubnoun

A point where many routes meet and traffic is distributed, dispensed or diverted.

Hubnoun

A central facility providing a range of related services, such as a medical hub or an educational hub

Hubnoun

(networking) A computer networking device connecting several Ethernet ports. See switch.

Hubnoun

(surveying) A stake with a nail in it, used to mark a temporary point.

Hubnoun

A male weasel; a buck; a dog; a jack.

Hubnoun

(obsolete) The hilt of a weapon.

Hubnoun

(US) A rough protuberance or projecting obstruction.

Hubnoun

(video games) An area in a video game from which most or all of the game's levels are accessed.

Hubnoun

A goal or mark at which quoits, etc., are thrown.

Hubnoun

A hardened, engraved steel punch for impressing a device upon a die, used in coining, etc.

Hubnoun

A screw hob.

Hubnoun

A block for scotching a wheel.

Hubnoun

The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave. See Illust. of Axle box.

Hubnoun

The hilt of a weapon.

Hubnoun

A rough protuberance or projecting obstruction; as, a hub in the road. [U.S.] See Hubby.

Hubnoun

A goal or mark at which quoits, etc., are cast.

Hubnoun

A hardened, engraved steel punch for impressing a device upon a die, used in coining, etc.

Hubnoun

A screw hob. See Hob, 3.

Hubnoun

A block for scotching a wheel.

Hubnoun

The central location within which activities tend to concentrate, or from which activities radiate outward; a focus of activity.

Hubnoun

A large airport used as a central transfer station for an airline, permitting economic air transportation between remote locations by directing travellers through the hub, often changing planes at the hub, and thus keeping the seat occupancy rate on the airplanes high. The hub together with the feeder lines from remote locations constitute the so-called hub and spoke system of commercial air passenger transportation. A commercial airline may have more than one such hub.

Hubnoun

The city of Boston, Massachusetts referred to locally by the nickname The Hub.

Hubnoun

the central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc) through which the shaft or axle passes

Hubnoun

a center of activity or interest or commerce or transportation; a focal point around which events revolve;

Modemnoun

A device that encodes digital computer signals into analog/analogue telephone signals and vice versa and allows computers to communicate over a phone line.

Modemverb

To transmit by modem.

Modemnoun

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; also called modulator-demodulator; as, the latest modems can transmit data at 56,000 baud over a clear telephone line. The speed of transmission of information by a modem is usually measured in units of baud, equivalent to bits per second.

Modemnoun

(from a combination of MOdulate and DEModulate) electronic equipment consisting of a device used to connect computers by a telephone line

Modem

A modulator-demodulator, or simply a modem, is a hardware device that converts data from a digital format, intended for communication directly between devices with specialized wiring, into one suitable for a transmission medium such as telephone lines or radio. A modem modulates one or more carrier wave signals to encode digital information for transmission, and demodulates signals to decode the transmitted information.