verb transitiveWord forms: deˈmoduˌlated or deˈmoduˌlating
to cause to undergo demodulation
demodulate in American English
(diˈmɑdʒəˌleit)
transitive verbWord forms: -lated, -lating
Telecommunications
to extract the original information-bearing signal from a modulated carrier wave or signal; detect
Derived forms
demodulator
noun
Word origin
[1920–25; de- + modulate]This word is first recorded in the period 1920–25. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Unknown Soldier, checkout, follow-up, fundamentalism, slalomde- is a prefix occurring in loanwords from Latin (decide); also used to indicate privation, removal, and separation (dehumidify), negation (demerit; derange), descent (degrade; deduce), reversal (detract), or intensity (decompound)
Examples of 'demodulate' in a sentence
demodulate
The experimental results indicate that the sensing system can linearly demodulate the phase shift.
Ruquan Xu, Huiyong Guo, Lei Liang 2017, 'Distributed fiber optic interferometric geophone system based on draw tower gratings',Photonic Sensorshttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13320-017-0408-2. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
At the base-station, a receiver will demodulate the received signal for extracting the sensed data.
Rashid Mirzavand, Mohammad Mahdi Honari, Bahareh Laribi, Behnam Khorshidi, MohtadaSadrzadeh, Pedram Mousavi 2018, 'An Unpowered Sensor Node for Real-Time Water Quality Assessment (Humic Acid Detection)',Electronicshttp://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/7/10/231. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
A strain sensor receiver and accelerometer receivers are used to separate and demodulate the twodata streams.
Erjian Zhang, Ali Abdi 2019, 'Communication Rate Increase in Drill Strings of Oil and Gas Wells Using Multiple Actuators',Sensorshttp://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/19/6/1337. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
This technique employs parallel computing and pipeline control to modulate incident light and demodulate the reflected sensing signal.
Chenyuan Hu, Wei Bai 2018, 'High-Speed Interrogation for Large-Scale Fiber Bragg Grating Sensing', Sensorshttp://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/18/2/665. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)