What is "modulator"

Usage examples of "modulator".

Scott, please call the warp drive engine room and have your people check the status of the trilithium modulator crystals in the field damper circuits.

I have disabled the warp drive by removing the trilithium modulator crystals from the field damper circuits.

Scott, am I correct in assuming that with the modulator crystals gone, the warp drive is inoperable?

Scott, am I correct hi assuming that with the modulator crystals gone, the warp drive is inoperable?

When I limped into a chemist looking for liniment, I found they were selling something called prostaglandin modulators, anti-inflammatory compounds that allegedly minimized damage without shutting down any vital repair processes.

Alongside his recliner was the cluttered surface that served as a desk, elbow-distance bookshelf, breakfast bar, and workbench for a partly dismantled device of peculiar design and fabrication, which he had informed her was from the innards of a Ganymean gravitic communications modulator.

It's to do with the way the GRASER modulators initiate the particle annihilations.

The thing was complete—microphone, crystal oscillator frequency doubler, power amplifier, modulator, and power enough for several hours’ operation—and it was sensitive enough to pick up ordinary conversation at a distance of several feet and transmit the words to another receiver to which Doc Savage had been listening outside the candy store.

Stig was collecting software from an insider at the Shansorel Partnership, the same insider who had supplied regulator software for a set of microphase modulators that Valtare Rigin had acquired.

The only way we'll get those modulators is from that company in France that Aub mentioned.

One by one the additional modified modulators were switched in and brought up to operating power, compressing the return energy into an ever-decreasing radius centered on the middle of the empty circle.

All I have to do now is activate the focusing modulators to direct the return energy on to some specific point.

You know how the J-bomb director modulators focus all the hi-radiation on one selected target point.

She sat and listened for a little while to the faint and comforting hum of all the equipment in the house—the com on standby, the temperature modulators, some gadget or other belonging to Miles.

It was the bank of high-frequency modulators that made this different from any conventional imagers.