modulate
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin modulatus, past participle of modulari (“to measure, regulate, modulate”), from modulus (“measure”); see modulus. Compare module. By surface analysis, module + -ate.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈmɑː.d͡ʒə.ˌleɪt/, /ˈmɑ.dju.ˌleɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
editmodulate (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
- 1980 April 19, Andrea Loewenstein, “Random Lust”, in Gay Community News, page 10:
- "Can you tell?" she asked, in a trembling but well modulated and sensual voice.
- (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
editRelated terms
editTranslations
editto regulate
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to change the pitch (transitive)
to vary the amplitude etc.
to move from one key to another (intransitive)
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Further reading
edit- “modulate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “modulate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Esperanto
editAdverb
editmodulate
- present adverbial passive participle of moduli
Italian
editEtymology 1
editVerb
editmodulate
- inflection of modulare:
Etymology 2
editParticiple
editmodulate f pl
Latin
editParticiple
editmodulāte
References
edit- “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
- modulate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Spanish
editVerb
editmodulate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of modular combined with te
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