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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
modulate
verb
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▪ Although glutamate is the presumed mediator, other neurotransmitters may modulate its effects.
▪ But the biggest joy is Fiorentino, who delivers a beautifully modulated seriocomic performance.
▪ Day-to-day television, in its regularity and its availability, seems regulated by repetition and modulated by acceptable difference.
▪ It can be employed progressively to modulate, by stages, from one shape to another.
▪ Second, people laugh the way they speak: by modulating exhaled air.
▪ This middle layer has a spatial light modulator that acts as a light valve to modulate the illumination.
▪ Under Lloyd Richards' carefully modulated direction, these lives fill the theater with their music.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Modulate

Modulate \Mod"u*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Modulated; p. pr. & vb. n. Modulating.] [L. modulatus, p. p. of modulari to measure, to modulate, fr. modulus a small measure, meter, melody, dim. of modus. See Mode.]

  1. To form, as sound, to a certain key, or to a certain portion.

  2. To vary or inflect in a natural, customary, or musical manner; as, the organs of speech modulate the voice in reading or speaking.

    Could any person so modulate her voice as to deceive so many?
    --Broome.

  3. (Electronics) 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.

Modulate

Modulate \Mod"u*late\, v. i. (Mus.) To pass from one key into another.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
modulate

1610s, in music, back-formation from modulation, or else from Latin modulatus, past participle of modulari. General sense from 1620s. In telecommunications from 1908. Related: Modulated; modulating.

Wiktionary
modulate

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To regulate, adjust or adapt 2 (context transitive English) To change the pitch, intensity or tone of one's voice or of a musical instrument 3 (context transitive electronics English) 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) 4 (context intransitive music English) to move from one key or tonality to another, especially by using a chord progression

WordNet
modulate
  1. v. change the key of, in music; "modulate the melody"

  2. of one's speech, varying the pitch [syn: tone, inflect]

  3. fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of; "regulate the temperature"; "modulate the pitch" [syn: regulate]

  4. adjust the pitch, tone, or volume of

  5. vary the frequency, amplitude, phase, or other characteristic of (electromagnetic waves)

Wikipedia
Modulate (album)

Modulate is Bob Mould's fifth solo album, released in 2002. Although a few tracks on his previous release, The Last Dog and Pony Show, had featured tape loops and samples, Mould shocked his fans with such a dramatic embrace of electronica. Rolling Stone magazine awarded the album stars out of five, declaring: "Ultimately, this is a rock record with electronic effects, not a techno record with guitars, and it falls short of being totally satisfying as either."

The record includes the song "The Receipt," which City Pages observed "can be taken as a barely veiled attack on Mould's old Hüsker Dü-mate Grant Hart."

Mould dubbed the tour supporting this album The Carnival of Light and Sound. It featured him performing alone on stage, backed by prerecorded tracks as short films were projected on screens behind him.

Modulate (band)

Modulate is the studio project of Manchester-based DJ Geoff Lee. They are an Electronic dance music group from Manchester, England. Their sound blends elements of various styles including Electro, Rave, Industrial music, Trance music and Hard dance. The band is signed to Metropolis Records (North America) and Infacted Recordings (Europe/RoW). Modulate live shows also feature additional musicians, Gregor Beyerle on synthesizer and Rhys Hughes on live sequencer/samples.

Usage examples of "modulate".

He sang them softly, but his beautifully modulated barytone carried well, and every syllable reached her.

We should never forget, however, that we are dealing here with the imperial overdetermination of democracy, in which the multitude is captured in flexible and modulating apparatuses of control.

Lucie uttered her shrill plaint, Arthur at one side, his modulated tones in the middle register, and the bass of the minister pealed forth like an organ, while the voices of the women repeating his words took them up in chorus delightfully.

These are our letters, our words: they too can be modulated, broken, recoupled, redefined, co-polymerized one to the other in worldwide chains that will surface now and then over long molecular silences, like the seen parts of a tapestry.

The freshness and audacity of that imagination, and the beautiful extravagance of that speech, a speech modulated to a rhythm that Synge was the first to catch, are in themselves enough to give distinction to almost any subject.

The nose thermistor busily converts temperature to an electrical voltage which modulates the transmitter which squirts the signal back to the suitcase ground system on the 403 mHz.

Nevertheless, we decided to resume the experiments in the autumn, and we arranged that station PCJJ, instead of sending modulated signals, should transmit signals every twenty seconds, consisting of unmodulated waves in the form of three dashes closely following each other.

Instead of a hypnotic, barely modulated drone, Kuwarra punctuated his playing with as weird an assortment of whoops, squawks, squeals, and moans as could be found in a haunted house on Allhallows Eve.

Core knew that the topography of the Void Which Binds could be modulated to transmit information instantaneously -- via the fatline -- but that this was a clumsy and destructive use of the medium of Planck space, rather like communicating across a continent by means of artificially produced earthquakes.

In theory, modulated gravity waves should alternately blueshift and redshift electromagnetic radiation.

It was impossible to access a microsat, to modulate the shielding to prevent burnup on reentry, and then guide it to earth with such pinpoint accuracy that an attacking force less than fifty meters from the Resistance fighters would be wiped out, yet leave the other group untouched.

The city manager could not be seen, but his expression seemed to modulate the sound of his voice almost specifically: the tiger mind masked behind a pussy-cat purr as behind a pussy-cat smile.

Brandenburg Concertos for my ear, but I am open to wonder whether the same events are recalled by the rhythms of insects, the long, pulsing runs of birdsong, the descants of whales, the modulated vibrations of a million locusts in migration, the tympani of gorilla breasts, termite heads, drumfish bladders.

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.

But Solitude Hermae, with neither sun nor sister worlds to modulate the music of its core, was setting up a greater interference than he had expected.