Modulate vs Alter - What's the difference?
modulate | alter |
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 change the form or structure of.
* Bible, Psalms lxxxix. 34
* Shakespeare
* Alexander Pope
To become different.
To tailor clothes to make them fit.
To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
(obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.
In transitive terms the difference between modulate and alter
is that modulate is to change the pitch, intensity or tone of one's voice or of a musical instrument while alter is to castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).modulate
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Verb
(modulat)Derived terms
* amplitude modulation, AM * frequency modulation, FM * phase modulationExternal links
* * ----alter
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Alternative forms
* altre (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
- No power in Venice can alter a decree.
- It gilds all objects, but it alters none.
- (Milton)