Definitions for modulate

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modulate mod·u·late

Spelling: [moj-uh-leyt]

IPA: /ˈmɒdʒ əˌleɪt/

Modulate is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 335 anagrams from letters in modulate (adelmotu).

Definitions for modulate

verb (used with object)

1. to regulate by or adjust to a certain measure or proportion; soften; tone down.
2. to alter or adapt (the voice) according to the circumstances, one's listener, etc.
3. Music. to attune to a certain pitch or key. to vary the volume of (tone).
4. Telecommunications. to cause the amplitude, frequency, phase, or intensity of (a carrier wave) to vary in accordance with a sound wave or other signal, the frequency of the signal wave usually being very much lower than that of the carrier.

verb (used without object)

1. Telecommunications. to modulate a carrier wave. Citizens Band Radio Slang. to talk; visit:
2. Music. to pass from one key to another:

Origin of modulate

1550-60; Latin modulātus (past participle of modulārī to regulate (sounds), set to music, play an instrument). See module, Examples for modulate

Fred, I hope you will learn to modulate your voice, and not shriek so.

She spoke with no attempt to modulate her voice, and it carried distinctly to Gaston.

Previously, the medical community had known little about how to prevent or modulate this devastating liver disease.

To keep back the glances that could enlighten, to modulate the tones that might betray!

Is there a curve in it which I can modulate—a line which I can graduate—a vacancy I can fill?

This mirror is not the real organ of sound, but is supposed to modulate it.

Unable to modulate his voice, he heard the words come out too deep, too loud.

To keep back the glances that could enlighten; to modulate the tones that might betray!

Suppose we transmit at a radio-frequency of 50,000 cycles and modulate that with speech.

There is a point in the mad scene where it is easy to modulate into the key of G major.