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Undulate vs Modulate - What's the difference?

undulate | modulate |

In transitive terms the difference between undulate and modulate

is that undulate is to cause to resemble a wave while modulate is to change the pitch, intensity or tone of one's voice or of a musical instrument.

As an adjective undulate

is wavy in appearance or form.

undulate

English

Verb

(undulat)
  • To cause to move in a wavelike motion.
  • * Holder
  • Breath vocalized, that is, vibrated and undulated .
  • To cause to resemble a wave
  • To move in wavelike motions.
  • To appear wavelike.
  • See also

    * oscillate

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Wavy in appearance or form.
  • Changing the pitch and volume of one's voice.
  • (botany, of a margin) Winding up and down gradually relative to the blade.
  • 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