frequency modulation

English

Noun

frequency modulation (countable and uncountable, plural frequency modulations)

1. (sound, radio) the use of a modulating wave to vary the instantaneous frequency of a carrier wave

   Synonym: FM

Related terms

• amplitude modulation
• phase modulation

Translations

use of a modulating wave

• Catalan: modulació de freqüència f, freqüència modulada f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 調頻／调频 (zh) (tiáopín), 调频 (zh) (tiáopín)

• Dutch: frequentiemodulatie (nl)
• Finnish: taajuusmodulaatio (fi)
• French: modulation de fréquence (fr)
• German: Frequenzmodulation (de)
• Greek: διαμόρφωση συχνότητας (diamórfosi sychnótitas)
• Icelandic: tíðnimótun f
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• Italian: modulazione di frequenza
• Japanese: 周波数変調 (しゅうはすうへんちょう, shūhasūhenchō)
• Latin: modulatio frequentiae nominative, modulationis frequentiae genitive
• Polish: modulacja częstotliwości f
• Portuguese: modulação de frequência f
• Romanian: modulație de frecvență f, modulație în frecvență f
• Russian: частотная модуля́ция (častotnaja moduljácija)
• Spanish: modulación de la frecuencia
• Swedish: frekvensmodulering (sv) c