modulate

From Latin modulatus, past participle of modulari (“to measure, regulate, modulate”), from modulus (“measure”); see modulus. Compare module. By surface analysis, module +‎ -ate.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑː.d͡ʒə.ˌleɪt/, /ˈmɑ.dju.ˌleɪt/

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modulate (third-person singular simple present modulates, present participle modulating, simple past and past participle modulated)

1. (transitive) To regulate, adjust or adapt
2. (transitive) To change the pitch, intensity or tone of one's voice or of a musical instrument
   • 1980 April 19, Andrea Loewenstein, “Random Lust”, in Gay Community News, page 10:

     "Can you tell?" she asked, in a trembling but well modulated and sensual voice.

3. (transitive, electronics) 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)
4. (intransitive, music) to move from one key or tonality to another, especially by using a chord progression

• amplitude modulation, AM
• frequency modulation, FM
• phase modulation

• demodulate
• modem
• modulator
• module
• modulus

• “modulate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “modulate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

modulate

1. present adverbial passive participle of moduli

modulate

1. inflection of modulare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

modulate f pl

1. feminine plural of modulato

modulāte

1. vocative masculine singular of modulātus

• “modulate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “modulate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• modulate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

modulate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of modular combined with te