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Definition of Carrier wave

1. Noun. A radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal.

Definition of Carrier wave

1. Noun. An electromagnetic wave that can be modulated, either in frequency, amplitude or phase, to transmit speech, music, images, or other signals. ¹

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Literary usage of Carrier wave

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Making Things Better: Competing in Manufacturing (1993)
"The carrier wave, sent over the air or over cable, is picked up by a television ... The numerical data are encoded into an electromagnetic carrier wave, ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The plan employed is to transmit front the three ships a carrier wave of say 2000000 cycles (150 meters). Then on one ship to modulate this frequency with ..."

3. Vacuum Tubes in Wireless Communication: A Practical Textbook for Operators by Elmer Eustice Bucher (1918)
"A method for controlling the carrier wave at an audio or vocal frequency ... The radio frequency currents for the carrier wave are generated by the vacuum ..."

4. The Thermionic Vacuum Tube and Its Applications by Hendrik Johannes Van der Bijl (1920)
"At the receiving end this doubly modulated main carrier wave is impressed on a detector, the output of which will contain the modulated auxiliary carriers. ..."

5. Essentials of Modern Physics by Charles Elwood Dull (1922)
"516 a shows the carrier wave produced by a generator having a frequency of 20000 cycles. The wave is undamped, or continuous. It has the same amplitude ..."

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