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v. Simple past tense and past participle of modulate.

adj. Having either amplitude, intensity, frequency, or phase altered at intervals to represent information to be transmitted; -- of the carrier wave of a radio signal transmitted from one device to another for the purpose of conveying information. Opposite of unmodulated.

adj. altered in volume as well as tone or pitch.

adj. changed or adjusted in pitch, tone, or volume

adj. altered in volume as well as tone or pitch

"I, Ms. Rationality, am able to discuss in modulated tones how the market for this topic has changed; or conversely it's been done to death (even if I could have done it better); or the editor wouldn't have the good sense to recognize a great idea if he were on the Titanic and being offered a life preserver."

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modulate