phase modulation

1. 1.

   modulation of the phase of the carrier wave

   SynonymsPM

   Broadermodulation

Questions about phase modulation

What does phase modulation mean?

phase modulation means "modulation of the phase of the carrier wave".

What is another word for phase modulation?

Close synonyms include PM. 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 phase modulation a common word?

phase 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.