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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An electromagnetic wave that can be modulated, as in frequency, amplitude, or phase, to transmit speech, music, images, or other signals.
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- noun An
electromagnetic wave that can bemodulated , either infrequency ,amplitude orphase , totransmit speech ,music ,images , or othersignals .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal
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