Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

envelope detector

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.48 in modern English

Syllables: en-velope de-tec-tor
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An electronic circuit that takes a relatively high-frequency amplitude modulated signal as input and provides as output the demodulated envelope of the original signal.

Inflected Forms

envelope detectors (plural)

Synonyms

peak detector

Questions

What does envelope detector mean?: An electronic circuit that takes a relatively high-frequency amplitude modulated signal as input and provides as output the demodulated envelope of the original signal.

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