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modulated

modulated \modulated\ adj. (Electronics)

  1. 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. [Narrower terms: frequency modulated; amplitude modulated]

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

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modulated

vb. (en-past of: modulate)

WordNet
modulated
  1. adj. changed or adjusted to be suitable [ant: unmodulated]

  2. altered in volume as well as tone or pitch

Usage examples of "modulated".

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

The Destroyer had already altered its trajectory toward populated regions of the forest ring, but Den Soa broadcast the modulated graviton recordings while they were still decelerating, and the giant harvester responded with an indecipherable gravitonic rumble of its own and dutifully changed course toward a remote and unpopulated section of the ring.

Ben was crooning to the horses and did not hear the boy's properly modulated tones.

The TBS used a modulated laser beam which wasn't affected by plasma cannon and thrusters radiating across all the radio bands.

She had modulated her extremely strong telepathic voice to a mere whisper, a scared mental whisper.

His voice was so beautifully modulated, uninhibited in its expressiveness that she could have listened to him for years.

These had resulted from the effects of the modulated electrical current level.

In the duet with Merelan, she modulated her tone to match the soprano so that it was technically well sung, though the contralto part did not match the soprano in the joy which the song had been written to express.

She struck a chord on the gitar, a triumphant, incredible chord, and then modulated it, thinking how undisciplined that musical reaction had been.

One of the chords modulated into tones that were so close to the agonized cry of the previous night that she repeated the phrase.

No matter what conclusion it reached, it would respond to the stimulus of powerful modulated gravity waves.

That wouldn’t be any problem on the radio bands, but now we know they used modulated gravity waves for signaling as well, beaming both through the wormhole.

Den Soa was attempting to communicate with the gigantic ship via every means available, sending messages of peace on every band from primitive radio to modulated tachyon bursts.

Merely in modulated quantum state, perfectly safe, actually, in the mobius loop of the neutrino stream.

The sound, when it came, was not an actual noise—certainly not speech or sound as Pinchas or Petra had ever encountered it—but more a modulated rumble that moved through their bodies and echoed in their skulls via some terrible bone conduction.