Modulate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To adjust or adapt to a certain proportion; regulate or temper.
  • v. To change or vary the pitch, intensity, or tone of (one's voice or a musical instrument, for example).
  • v. Electronics To vary the frequency, amplitude, phase, or other characteristic of (electromagnetic waves).
  • v. Electronics To vary (electron velocity) in an electron beam.
  • verb-intransitive. Music To move from one key or tonality to another by means of a melody or chord progression.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To regulate, adjust or adapt
  • v. To change the pitch, intensity or tone of one's voice or of a musical instrument
  • v. (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)
  • v. to move from one key or tonality to another, especially by using a chord progression
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To modify; adjust; adapt; regulate.
  • To vary or inflect the sound or utterance of, especially so as to give expressiveness to what is uttered; vary or adapt in tone.
  • To vary the pitch of; inflect; melodize.
  • In music, to change from one key (tonality) to another, by utilizing one or more of the tones common to both.
  • In music, to pass from one key (tonality) into another, or from the major into the minor mode, or vice versa. See modulation, 3 .
  • Hence To vary, oscillate, or fluctuate.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. vary the frequency, amplitude, phase, or other characteristic of (electromagnetic waves)
  • v. fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of
  • v. vary the pitch of one's speech
  • v. change the key of, in music
  • v. adjust the pitch, tone, or volume of
  • Verb Form
    modulated    modulates    modulating   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    change    vary    alter    correct    set    adjust    mouth    verbalise    speak    verbalize   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    adjust    inflect    tongue    accentuate    pitch