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Modulator

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person who modulates.
  2. 2
    A device or thing that modulates.

    "[Poetry] is a most musicall Modulator of all Intelligibles by her inventive Variations, undulling their Grossenesse, and subliming it into more refined Acceptablenesse to our own, or others understandings."

  3. 3
    A chart in the tonic sol-fa notation on which the modulations or changes from one scale to another are shown by the relative position of the notes.

Etymology

From modulate + -or.

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