Modulate vs Generate - What's the difference?
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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
To bring into being; give rise to.
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, title= To produce as a result of a chemical or physical process.
To procreate, beget.
(mathematics) To form a figure from a curve or solid.
To appear or occur; be generated.
* 1883 , (Thomas Hardy), (The Three Strangers)
In lang=en terms the difference between modulate and generate
is that modulate is to change the pitch, intensity or tone of one's voice or of a musical instrument while generate is to appear or occur; be generated.As verbs the difference between modulate and generate
is that modulate is to regulate, adjust or adapt while generate is to bring into being; give rise to.modulate
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(modulat)Derived terms
* amplitude modulation, AM * frequency modulation, FM * phase modulationExternal links
* * ----generate
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(generat)Europa League: Radamel Falcao's Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao, passage=In the last 20 minutes Athletic began to generate the sort of pressure of which they are capable, but by then it was far too late: the game had begun to slip away from them as early as the seventh minute.}}
T time, passage=The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them
- Mrs. Fennel, seeing the steam begin to generate on the countenances of her guests, crossed over and touched the fiddler's elbow and put her hand on the serpent's mouth.