frequency modulation

1. 1.

   modulation of the frequency of the (radio) carrier wave

   SynonymsFM

   Broadermodulation

Questions about frequency modulation

What does frequency modulation mean?

frequency modulation means "modulation of the frequency of the (radio) carrier wave".

What is another word for frequency modulation?

Close synonyms include FM. 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 frequency modulation a common word?

frequency modulation 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.