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Calibrate vs Modulate - What's the difference?

calibrate | modulate |

As verbs the difference between calibrate and modulate

is that calibrate is to check or adjust by comparison with a standard while modulate is to regulate, adjust or adapt.

calibrate

English

(Calibration)

Verb

(calibrat)
  • To check or adjust by comparison with a standard.
  • To mark the scale of a measuring instrument.
  • To measure the caliber of a tube or gun.
  • Anagrams

    * English transitive verbs ----

    modulate

    English

    Verb

    (modulat)
  • To regulate, adjust or adapt
  • To change the pitch, intensity or tone of one's voice or of a musical instrument
  • (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)
  • (music) to move from one key or tonality to another, especially by using a chord progression
  • Derived terms

    * amplitude modulation, AM * frequency modulation, FM * phase modulation