Modulation

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act or process of modulating.
  • n. The state of being modulated.
  • n. Music A passing or transition from one key or tonality to another.
  • n. Music The result of such a transition.
  • n. A change in stress, pitch, loudness, or tone of the voice; an inflection of the voice.
  • n. An instance of such a change or an inflection.
  • n. The harmonious use of language, as in poetry or prose.
  • n. Electronics The variation of a property of an electromagnetic wave or signal, such as its amplitude, frequency, or phase.
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  • n. The process of applying a signal to a carrier, modulating.
  • n. Methods of modulating.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of modulating, or the state of being modulated.
  • n. Sound modulated; melody.
  • n. A change of key, whether transient, or until the music becomes established in the new key; a shifting of the tonality of a piece, so that the harmonies all center upon a new keynote or tonic; the art of transition out of the original key into one nearly related, and so on, it may be, by successive changes, into a key quite remote. There are also sudden and unprepared modulations.
  • n. The alteration of hte amplitude, intensity, frequency, or phase (of the carrier wave of a radio signal) at intervals, so as to represent information to be transmitted.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of modulating
  • n. The act of inflecting the voice or any instrument in a musical manner.
  • n. The modification of the voice or of utterance to express various shades of meaning or emotion.
  • n. A state or condition reached by a process of modulating, modifying, or varying.
  • n. In Gregorian music, one of the tones in a mode with which every phrase of a melody in that mode must begin and end.
  • n. In modern music, the act, process, or result of changing, in the course of a piece, from one key (tonality) to another, so that a new tone becomes the key-note and the relative significance of all the tones common to both tonalities is altered.
  • n. A musical composition exemplifying modulation.
  • n. Sound modulated; melody.
  • n. In architecture, the proportion of the different parts of an order according to a module.
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  • n. (electronics) the transmission of a signal by using it to vary a carrier wave; changing the carrier's amplitude or frequency or phase
  • n. the act of modifying or adjusting according to due measure and proportion (as with regard to artistic effect)
  • n. a musical passage moving from one key to another
  • n. rise and fall of the voice pitch
  • n. a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    revision    alteration    musical passage    passage    speech   
    Cross Reference
    abrupt modulation   
    Form
    demodulation   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    melody    adjustment    accent    pitch    inflection   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Alsatian    Americanization    Appalachian    Balkanization    Christianization   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    waveform    amplitude    modulator    voltage    modulations   
     
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