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Modulator vs Modulate - What's the difference?

modulator | modulate |

Modulator is a related term of modulate.


As a noun modulator

is device that modulates.

As a verb modulate is

to regulate, adjust or adapt.

modulator

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • device that modulates

    • 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

    Related terms

    * demodulate * modem * modulator * module * modulus

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