FM

Updated: 11/12/2023 by Computer Hope

FM may refer to any of the following:

AM and FM adjustment knob.

1. With a radio or an audio signal, FM is short for frequency modulation and was invented by Edwin Armstrong in 1933. FM is a method of transmitting a signal of greater quality at ranges of 80 MHz to 108 MHz at a shorter distance than AM.

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FM is one of the main methods of transmitting data wirelessly.

2. The Internet domain suffix .fm is short for Micronesia.

3. Short for frequency modulation, FM encoding is a method of recording data to a floppy disk or hard drive platter. This encoding method is no longer used today and was replaced with MFM (modified frequency modulation).

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