Waveform (usually sinusoidal) that is modulated (modified) with an input signal for the purpose of conveying information.
1The carrier wave hissed for another couple of seconds, then fell silent.
2The BBC went off the air; even the carrier wave died.
3We generate a blanket frequency, impressed upon the ultra carrier wave.
4They managed to produce a carrier wave I could detect on their last attempt.
5She broadcast a resonant carrier wave at that signal and piggybacked into the system.
6Phones were dead and the radio in the police car brought only a carrier wave.
7We can't get the carrier wave for the remote-control impulses to go very far underwater.
8Walls, planets, even suns, do not bar our vision, because of the fifth-order carrier wave.
9There was a moment's silence while the satellite's carrier wave emitted a few electronic bleeps.
10But there's a carrier wave from your tooth-implant.
11The radio hummed for a second, the carrier wave cut off, and then there was silence.
12We must see what we are doing, so the light-rays must be heterodyned upon our carrier wave.
13Or is it only the carrier wave?
14The carrier wave keeps compressing and expanding.'
15Well, anyway, by the use of suitable fields of force it can be used as a carrier wave.
16Not even a background carrier wave.
Translations for carrier wave