MEANING
To extract an information-bearing signal from a carrier wave whose properties have been varied to encode it.
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Words that belong together
- demodulate a radio signal
- demodulated audio
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The receiver demodulated the carrier into a faint voice.
A damaged component prevented the unit from demodulating the transmission.
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Word forms
- Base
- demodulate
- Past tense
- demodulated
- Past participle
- demodulated
- Present participle
- demodulating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- demodulate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are demodulating
- Present perfect
- have/has demodulated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been demodulating
- Past
- demodulated
- Past continuous
- was/were demodulating
- Past perfect
- had demodulated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been demodulating
- Future
- will demodulate
- Future continuous
- will be demodulating
- Future perfect
- will have demodulated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been demodulating
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Usage notes
Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: demodulate; demodulates; demodulated; demodulated; demodulating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: demodulates.
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