continuous carrier
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continuous carrier
[kən¦tin·yə·wəs ′kar·ē·ər] (communications)
A carrier signal that is transmitted at all times during maintenance of a communications link, whether or not data are being transmitted.
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continuous carrier
In communications, a carrier frequency that is transmitted even when data are not being sent over the line. See carrier.Copyright © 1981-2025 by The Computer Language Company Inc. All Rights reserved. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction is strictly prohibited without permission from the publisher.
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This type of signal has a
continuous carrier (at the transmit frequency) and carries its information in the modulation of the frequency, amplitude, or phase of that carrier.
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