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DEMODULATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they demodulate ... he / she / it demodulates
Past simple: demodulated
Past participle: demodulated
-ing form: demodulating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extract information from a modulated carrier wave
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "demodulate" is one way to...):
draw out; extract; pull; pull out; pull up; rip out; take out; tear out (remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
demodulation ((electronics) the reception of a signal by extracting it from the carrier wave)
demodulator (rectifier that extracts modulation from a radio carrier wave)
