Distortion occurring during amplitude modulation as a result of an excessively large modulating signal; spec. distortion whereby the amplitude of the…

Mathematics. Of or relating to harmonics (sense A. 2b), as harmonic distortion non-linear distortion of a wave-form in which harmonics of the…

Electr. The maximum departure of the value of an alternating current or wave from the average value. Also attrib., as amplitude distortion.

Modulation of the sinusoidal components of a signal or wave-form by one another, a kind of distortion that produces new components with frequencies…

electrical intermodulation; esp. the introduction into one signal of new frequencies from another, unwanted, modulated signal.