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Webster 1913 Edition
Modulate
Mod′u-late
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Modulated
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Modulating
.] [L.
modulatus
, p. p. of modulari
to measure, to modulate, fr. modulus
a small measure, meter, melody, dim. of modus
. See Mode
.] 1.
To form, as sound, to a certain key, or to a certain portion.
2.
To vary or inflect in a natural, customary, or musical manner;
as, the organs of speech
. modulate
the voice in reading or speakingCould any person so
modulate
her voice as to deceive so many? Broome.
Mod′u-late
,Verb.
I.
(Mus.)
To pass from one key into another.
Webster 1828 Edition
Modulate
MOD'ULATE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To form sound to a certain key, or to a certain proportion.2.
To very or inflect sound in a natural, customary or musical manner. Thus the organs of speech modulate the voice in reading or speaking. Could any person so modulate her voice as to deceive so many.
Definition 2024
modulate
modulate
English
Verb
modulate (third-person singular simple present modulates, present participle modulating, simple past and past participle modulated)
- (transitive) To regulate, adjust or adapt
- (transitive) To change the pitch, intensity or tone of one's voice or of a musical instrument
- (transitive, electronics) 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)
- (intransitive, music) to move from one key or tonality to another, especially by using a chord progression
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
to regulate
to change the pitch (transitive)
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to move from one key to another (intransitive)
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External links
- modulate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- modulate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
Italian
Verb
modulate
- second-person plural present indicative of modulare
- second-person plural imperative of modulare
- feminine plural of modulato
Latin
Participle
modulāte
- vocative masculine singular of modulātus
References
- modulate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- modulate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “modulate”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.