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modulation

DEFINITIONS OF: modulation

1

n the act of modifying or adjusting according to due measure and proportion (as with regard to artistic effect)

Type of:
alteration, revision
the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification)

n a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified

Synonyms:
inflection
Type of:
delivery, manner of speaking, speech
your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally

n rise and fall of the voice pitch

Synonyms:
intonation, pitch contour
Types:
intonation pattern
intonations characteristic of questions and requests and statements
drone, droning, monotone
an unchanging intonation
singsong
a regular and monotonous rising and falling intonation
Type of:
inflection, prosody
the patterns of stress and intonation in a language

n a musical passage moving from one key to another

Synonyms:
transition
Type of:
musical passage, passage
a short section of a musical composition

n (electronics) the transmission of a signal by using it to vary a carrier wave; changing the carrier's amplitude or frequency or phase

Types:
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AM, amplitude modulation
modulation of the amplitude of the (radio) carrier wave
FM, frequency modulation
modulation of the frequency of the (radio) carrier wave
PM, phase modulation
modulation of the phase of the carrier wave
pulse modulation
modulation that imposes a signal on a train of pulses
pulse-time modulation
modulation of the time between successive pulses
Type of:
transmission
communication by means of transmitted signals
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