v. To form, as sound, to a certain key, or to a certain portion.v. To vary or inflect in a natural, customary, or musical manner.v. To alter the amplitude, frequency, phase, or intensity of (the carrier wave of a radio signal) at intervals, so as to represent information to be conveyed by the signal; -- a technique used to convey information by means of radio waves transmitted by one electronic device and received by another.verb-intransitive. To pass from one key into another.