American English pronunciation
How to pronounce modulate
IPA transcription: ['mɔdʒjuleɪt]
Pronunciation variants: ['mɔdʒjuleɪt]['mɔdʒuleɪt]
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Verb
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fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of
“regulate the temperature”
“modulate the pitch”
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change the key of, in music
“modulate the melody”
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vary the pitch of one's speech
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adjust the pitch, tone, or volume of
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vary the frequency, amplitude, phase, or other characteristic of (electromagnetic waves)
Usage examples
- Here, a single simple theme is varied, ornamented, syncopated, modulated throughout the piece.
- The design also improves the detection of pulse-modulated transmission mode signals.
- Amphetamine modulates the activity of most psychoactive drugs.
- Regenerative detectors often used grid leak, especially in the detection of amplitude modulated signals.
- A coherent detector is able to independently demodulate these carriers.
- This principle of using two independently modulated carriers is the foundation of quadrature modulation.
- Histone modifications modulate the packing of chromatin.