Phasor
It is common terminology to call

For a real sinusoid,







When working with complex sinusoids, as in Eq.(4.11), the phasor
representation
of a sinusoid can be thought of as simply the
complex amplitude of the sinusoid. I.e.,
it is the complex constant that multiplies the carrier term
.
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