Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Electronics) Having either amplitude, intensity, frequency, or phase altered at intervals to represent information to be transmitted; -- of the carrier wave of a radio signal transmitted from one device to another for the purpose of conveying information. Opposite of
unmodulated . - adjective altered in volume as well as tone or pitch.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
modulate .
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- adjective changed or adjusted in pitch, tone, or volume
- adjective altered in volume as well as tone or pitch
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Examples
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I, Ms. Rationality, am able to discuss in modulated tones how the market for this topic has changed; or conversely it's been done to death (even if I could have done it better); or the editor wouldn't have the good sense to recognize a great idea if he were on the Titanic and being offered a life preserver.
Me and Sally Field | The Stiletto Gang The Stiletto Gang 2008
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The primary runs at its resonant frequency in the 41 KHz range, and is modulated from the control unit in order to generate the tones you hear.
Boing Boing 2007
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His latest exercise in modulated hedonism may not have much to say on the politics of happiness, but sometimes that can be a blessing.
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So the Minister chanted in modulated song these couplets,
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Sernadas et al. 2002b, other examples of collapse were presented, and a solution to the problem was proposed by means of a controlled notion of algebraic fibring called modulated fibring.
Combining Logics Carnielli, Walter 2007
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While this has been described as a modulated carrier wave, and carrier waves are usually considered continuous, pulsed radars do not send a continuous signal: the carrier is turned on only when it is modulated into pulses
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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And yet it is a flawlessly delivered lie, spoken in the kind of modulated tone you would expect from an IMF technocrat.
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Try speaking in a room with a 20Hz wave and your voice will be modulated which is audiable.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Brown note? I have never heard of this. 2005
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Latterly, however, the circles which he mostly frequented in Paris had voted strong revolutionary ardour to be mauvais ton; a kind of modulated royalism, or rather Louis
La Vend�e 2004
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Latterly, however, the circles which he mostly frequented in Paris had voted strong revolutionary ardour to be mauvais ton; a kind of modulated royalism, or rather Louis Seizeism, had become fashionable; and Adolphe
La Vendée Anthony Trollope 1848
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