Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Either of the two bands of frequencies, one just above and one just below a carrier frequency, that result from modulation of a carrier wave.
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- noun The
band offrequencies each side of thefrequency of acarrier wave ; formed as a result ofmodulation of the carrier.
Etymologies
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Examples
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In the air the sideband voices of amateur radio operators is a fluttering electronic chorus.
The Tourists stephen hastings-king 2011
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There is a pilot tone at 38.75 Khz that must be multiplied by 8, reinserted into the carrier, where it recovers the other sideband.
Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project Update (LOIRP) 20 January 2009 - NASA Watch 2009
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When you dock, the virus will be interfaced with the Straylight custodial system and we'll cut the sideband.
Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth Boudreau Freret 2010
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The real link between your deck and Straylight is a sideband broadcast over Garvey's navigation system.
Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth Boudreau Freret 2010
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According to Bates, The Farm evolved a crazy-quilt economic structure, "tied together by homebrew computers, sideband radio and ham television, and by dovetailed holding corporations, subsidiaries, and business divisions."
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583 2007
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I thought that guy was Benny Hill, and that he invented the stretch-sideband-revolving-whatsis.
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Because that and the control characters make up the sideband packet size.
Verizon Wireless reverses decision, restores SMS delivery notifications « Boy Genius Report 2008
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The secret to creating fake tag responses is to generate the two sideband frequencies, and use them to send back properly-encoded responses, that are synchronized with the RFID readerâs clock signal.
Boing Boing: December 3, 2006 - December 9, 2006 Archives 2006
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There were occasional squawks from the sideband radio channel that Duck Butt was using to contact Maultsby.
The U-2 spy plane fiasco Dobbs, Michael 2008
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PESCA: Well, their keyboard player, Franz, is in a sideband that plays, like, circus music.
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