Modulate(v. i.) To pass from one key into another.
Modulate(v. t.) To form, as sound, to a certain key, or to a certain portion.
Modulate(v. t.) To vary or inflect in a natural, customary, or musical manner; as, the organs of speech modulate the voice in reading or speaking.
Modulated(imp. & p. p.) of Modulate
Modulating(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Modulate
Modulation(n.) The act of modulating, or the state of being modulated; as, the modulation of the voice.
Modulation(n.) Sound modulated; melody.
Modulation(n.) A change of key, whether transient, or until the music becomes established in the new key; a shifting of the tonality of a piece, so that the harmonies all center upon a new keynote or tonic; the art of transition out of the original key into one nearly related, and so on, it may be, by successive changes, into a key quite remote. There are also sudden and unprepared modulations.
Modulator(n.) One who, or that which, modulates.
Module(n.) A model or measure.
Module(n.) The size of some one part, as the diameter of semi-diameter of the base of a shaft, taken as a unit of measure by which the proportions of the other parts of the composition are regulated. Generally, for columns, the semi-diameter is taken, and divided into a certain number of parts, called minutes (see Minute), though often the diameter is taken, and any dimension is said to be so many modules and minutes in height, breadth, or projection.
Module(n.) To model; also, to modulate.
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