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Pulse-amplitude modulation

Pulse-amplitude modulation is a form of signal modulation where the message information is encoded in the amplitude of a series of signal pulses. Pulse-amplitude modulation is now rarely used, having been largely superseded by pulse-code modulation, and, more recently, by pulse-position modulation.

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