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Modulate

//ˈmɒd͡ʒɪleɪt// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To regulate, adjust or adapt; To change the pitch, intensity or tone of one's voice or of a musical instrument transitive

    ""Can you tell?" she asked, in a trembling but well modulated and sensual voice."

  2. 2
    vary the frequency, amplitude, phase, or other characteristic of (electromagnetic waves) wordnet
  3. 3
    To regulate, adjust or adapt; to vary the amplitude, frequency or phase of a carrier wave in proportion to the amplitude etc of a source wave (such as speech or music) transitive
  4. 4
    adjust the pitch, tone, or volume of wordnet
  5. 5
    To regulate, adjust or adapt; to move from one key or tonality to another, especially by using a chord progression intransitive, transitive
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  1. 6
    fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of wordnet
  2. 7
    vary the pitch of one's speech wordnet
  3. 8
    change the key of, in music wordnet

Etymology

From Latin modulor (“to measure, regulate, modulate”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix), from modulus (“measure”); see modulus. Compare module. By surface analysis, modul(e) + -ate.

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