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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The encoding of a carrier wave by variation of its frequency in accordance with an input signal.
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- noun sound, radio the use of a
modulating wave tovary theinstantaneous frequency of acarrier wave
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- noun modulation of the frequency of the (radio) carrier wave
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