noun
demodulation
(electronics) the reception of a signal by extracting it from the carrier wave
In a sentence
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Cheap radio chips handle demodulation in software now, so a single antenna can serve half a dozen different protocols.
Technology
Astronomers ran the tape through demodulation twice, pulling the faint pulsar timing out of a hiss of background noise.
Science
Wartime listening posts depended on skilled operators whose demodulation of weak transmissions turned static into readable coded messages.
History
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