demodulation
/dɪˌmɒdʃəˈleɪʃən/noun
demodulation is a noun meaning “The inverse of the effect of modulation, or applying a signal to a carrier” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled D-E-M-O-D-U-L-A-T-I-O-N and has 5 syllables, and it appears about once in every 12 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of demodulation is demodulations.
What does demodulation mean?
noun
- 1
The inverse of the effect of modulation, or applying a signal to a carrier.
A radio transmitter applies modulation to a carrier wave and the receiver applies demodulation to it to recover the message.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce demodulation?
- UK /dɪˌmɒdʃəˈleɪʃən/
Demodulation has 5 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of demodulation
- demodulations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is demodulation?
Demodulation appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 103,949th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does demodulation come from?
From de- + modulation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).