Modulate vs Mediate - What's the difference?
modulate | mediate |
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 resolve differences, or to bring about a settlement, between conflicting parties.
To intervene between conflicting parties in order to resolve differences or bring about a settlement.
To divide into two equal parts.
To act as an intermediary causal or communicative agent; convey
Acting through a mediating agency.
* (Oliver Sacks)
Intermediate between extremes.
Gained or effected by a medium or condition.
* Sir W. Hamilton
In transitive terms the difference between modulate and mediate
is that modulate is to change the pitch, intensity or tone of one's voice or of a musical instrument while mediate is to resolve differences, or to bring about a settlement, between conflicting parties.As an adjective mediate is
acting through a mediating agency.modulate
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(modulat)Derived terms
* amplitude modulation, AM * frequency modulation, FM * phase modulationExternal links
* * ----mediate
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(mediat)- (Holder)
Adjective
- Vygotsky saw the development of language and mental powers as neither learned, in the ordinary way, nor emerging epigenetically, but as being social and mediate in nature, as arising from the interaction of adult and child, and as internalizing the cultural instrument of language for the processes of thought.
- (Prior)
- (Francis Bacon)
- An act of mediate knowledge is complex.