carrier wave

1. 1.

   a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal

   Synonymscarrier

   Broaderradio wave

Questions about carrier wave

What does carrier wave mean?

carrier wave means "a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal".

What is another word for carrier wave?

Close synonyms include carrier. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is carrier wave a common word?

carrier wave is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.