carrier wave
Britishnoun
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This is done by varying the amplitude of the carrier wave in accordance with the frequency of the audio signal.
From Science Daily • Nov. 25, 2024
The researchers couple their resonating circuit to a second, higher frequency circuit, so that, much as in AM radio, any dark matter signal would make the amplitude of the higher frequency carrier wave warble.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 27, 2022
Lightwave electronics3—the foundation of attosecond science4—uses the oscillating carrier wave of intense light pulses to control the translational motion of the electron’s charge faster than a single cycle of light5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15.
From Nature • May 1, 2018
Here a carrier wave having the basic frequency of the radio station, perhaps 105.1 MHz, is modulated in frequency by the audio signal, producing a wave of constant amplitude but varying frequency.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
They use a specially tuned carrier wave of some sort, he said, that impinges on a thought wave pattern, but instead of registering the pattern's electronic impulse equivalents as does the electroencephalograph, it 'reflects' them.
From The Women-Stealers of Thrayx by Holden, Fox B.
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