modulate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb

To regulate, adjust or adapt.
To change the pitch, intensity or tone of one's voice or of a musical instrument.
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).
To move from one key or tonality to another, especially by using a chord progression.

Pronunciation

/ˈmɒd͡ʒɪleɪt/ /ˈmɒd͡ʒəˌleɪt/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-modulate.wav /ˈmɑ.d͡ʒəˌleɪt/ /ˈmɑ.djuˌleɪt/ /ˈmɒd͡ʒɪˌleɪt/ /ˈmɔd͡ʒəˌlæɪt/ /ˈmɒd͡ʒəˌlæɪt/

Word forms

modulate modulates modulating modulated

Etymology

From Latin modulor (“to measure, regulate, modulate”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix), from modulus (“measure”). Compare module, modulus. By surface analysis, modul(e) + -ate.

Related words

demodulate modem modulation modulator module modulus

Derived words

amplitude modulation AM angiomodulating chronomodulated comodulate downmodulate down-modulate frequency modulation FM immunomodulate immunomodulating intermodulate modulatable modulation modulative modulatory neuromodulate nonmodulated nonmodulating overmodulate phase modulation premodulate radiomodulated radiomodulating remodulate unmodulated upmodulate

Translations

Bulgarian: променям Bulgarian: регулирам Catalan: modular Danish: modulere Danish: regulere Finnish: säännellä French: moduler German: modulieren Italian: modulare Māori: whakaauau Polish: modulować Polish: zmodulować Portuguese: modular Russian: модулировать Slovene: regulirati Slovene: uravnati Spanish: modular

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