analog signal

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Technology

Telecommunications

A signal that has a continuous nature rather than a pulsed or discrete nature. Note: Electrical or physical analogies, such as continuously varying voltages, frequencies, or phases, may be used as analog signals. 2. A nominally continuous electrical signal that varies in some direct correlation with another signal impressed on a transducer. Note: For example, an analog signal may vary in frequency, phase, or amplitude in response to changes in physical phenomena, such as sound, light, heat, position, or pressure.

A signaling method that uses continuous changes in the amplitude or frequency of a radio transmission to convey information.

Science

Weather

A signal, such as voice, that varies in a continuous manner.

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