What is "modulations"

Usage examples of "modulations".

There was very little information on the concrete layers used in everyday discourse, and the higher-level modulations all concerned the strange tenses and temporalities that they had discussed the day before.

Then he fluted another phrase with upper-level modulations, similar to the first.

As it had been all along, the higher-level modulations all incorporated strange tenses and conditional temporalities that seemed to confuse even Rilla and Virigu, it seemed.

The coralskippers, ships, soldiers, etcetera, detect the modulations and pass their own information through their dovin basals (in the case of the slave soldiers, tiny ones embedded in their controlling growths).

He could have figured out the right phase modulations and transported you to the redoubt.

Long ago he had altered the modulations of the Cerberus gateway unit's transit feed connections so its transmissions were un-traceable.

He also had altered the modulations of the mat-trans gateway so the transmissions were untraceable, at least by conventional means.

The matter-stream carrier-wave modulations couldn't be synchronized, which resulted in a severe bout of jump sickness, symptoms of which included vomiting, excruciating head pain, weakness and hallucinations.

The matter stream modulations of the Cerberus unit were slightly out of phase with other gateways so they couldn't be traced.

It is conceivable that this additional rapid movement of the listening surface relative to the target causes useful modulations in the Doppler shift, modulations that supply additional information.