Usually means: Wave used to transmit signal.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. carrier wave: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. carrier wave: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. carrier wave: Collins English Dictionary
  4. carrier wave: Vocabulary.com
  5. carrier wave: Wiktionary
  6. carrier wave: Dictionary.com
  7. Carrier wave: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. carrier wave: Rhymezone
  9. carrier wave: FreeDictionary.org
  10. carrier wave: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. carrier wave: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Carrier-wave, carrier wave: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Carrier-wave, carrier wave: Medical dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (carrier wave)

noun:  (physics) A wave that can be modulated, either in amplitude, frequency, or phase, to carry or transmit images, music, speech, or other signals.
noun:  (mathematics, physics, obsolete) Synonym of soliton (“a self-reinforcing pulse or travelling wave caused by any non-linear effect”)

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