carrier frequency

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An FM receiver is tuned to resonate at the carrier frequency and has circuitry that responds to variations in frequency, reproducing the audio information.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

Realizing he needed to shield the radio signals from interference, he devised two different techniques that relied on altering the carrier frequency to eliminate interference.

From Scientific American • Jan. 10, 2012

AM transmitters operate over a wide belt of frequencies�a carrier frequency plus a band of voice frequencies on either side.

From Time Magazine Archive

He has determined a carrier frequency for the disorder among the Amish of about 1 in 10 people.

From Time Magazine Archive

The principal radio frequency is called the carrier frequency, since it carries or transmits the audio frequency wave.

From The Radio Amateur's Hand Book by Collins, A. Frederick (Archie Frederick)