| quarternary phase-shift keying [`kwät·ǝ´ner·ē `fāz ´shift ´kē·iŋ] ELECTRONICS Modulation of a microwave carrier with two parallel streams of nonreturn-to-zero data in such a way that the data is transmitted as 90° phase shifts of the carrier; this gives twice the message channel capacity of binary phase-shift keying in the same bandwidth. Abbreviated QPSK. |