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A musical passage moving from one key to another
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modulation
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In electronics and telecommunications , modulation is the process of varying one or more properties of a periodic waveform , called the carrier signal , with a modulating signal that typically contains information to be transmitted. In telecommunications, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "act of singing or making music," from Old French modulation "act of making music" (14c.), or directly from Latin modulationem (nominative modulatio ) "rhythmical measure, singing and playing, melody," noun of action from past participle stem ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a musical passage moving from one key to another [syn: transition ] (electronics) the transmission of a signal by using it to vary a carrier wave; changing the carrier's amplitude or frequency or phase rise and fall of the voice pitch [syn: intonation ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The process of applying a signal to a carrier, modulate. 2 The variation and regulation of a population, physiological response, etc.
Usage examples of modulation.
Judging by the modulations received, the Military Form deduced that they communicated through sound vibrations.
As Iberville, with Sainte-Helene and Perrot, sat watching the canoes that followed, with voyageurs erect in bow and stern, a voice in the next canoe, with a half-chanting modulation, began a song of the wild-life.
Clarke had built his own photophone transmitter from a bicycle headlight, and also played with audio modulation of sunlight by mechanical means by the time he was 13.
The modulations of the noises of wind and water, the infinite gradations and complexes of sound to be heard on the planisphere, seemed to ask him to include them, to become conscious of them and reproduce them.
Orchestra laboring, ceaseless mounting chords, no climax large enough though, disappointment coming, modulation, withdrawal, rearousal, no end either.
The data throughput of an ordinary remote control is negligibly low because is uses a very primitive method of carrier-wave modulation.
If the Furies had tried to interrupt the Enterprise shields by varying the modulation, then their ships must use the same type of modulating shield.
He commenced as a violin player, and attracted attention while a mere child by his original passages, chromatics, new harmonies and modulations.
For the modulation of speech is normally proprioceptive, governed by inflowing impulses from all our vocal organs.
Harmony, and that in His good time they will lead by infinite modulations to the great, harmonic final chord and cadence of Truth, Love, Peace, and Happiness, that will ring forever and ever under the Arches of Heaven, among all the Stars and Worlds, and in all souls of men and Angels.
He was speaking as Adela had never heard him speak, with modulations of the voice which were almost sentimental, like one pleading for love.
It was the cadences that mattered, the rise and fall of the ironic voice, the modulations, the stresses.
Then immediately others sung, others tuned their instruments, but no person was seene, by whose sweet harmony and modulation the sisters of Psyches were greatly delighted.
A computer translated it into audiovisual modulations on a signal beam and directed it into your antenna.
He adopted the same method of modulation using a record player amplifier and an Astatic crystal microphone.