DEMODULATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does demodulate mean? 

• DEMODULATE (verb)
  The verb DEMODULATE has 1 sense:

1. extract information from a modulated carrier wave

  Familiarity information: DEMODULATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEMODULATE (verb)

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)