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  • The engineer had to modulate the frequency of the signal to ensure clear communication between the devices.
    modulate = regulate or adjust
  • However, the modulation is unlike that used in conventional radio communications.†  (source)
  • I had wanted to escape the maze with its disorienting switchbacks, its ever-modulating pathways, to find the precious thing.†  (source)
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  • His mother allowed herself an angry look at him, but when she spoke, her voice was cool and modulated.†  (source)
    modulated = regulated
  • There was motion and stillness, stillness and modulation, and all the charge and magic of a great painting.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • Despite the fact that all the splendid modulations of the seasons and those colorful festivities that recur in the course of normal life have been replaced by a tyranny of indistinguishable days, the men in such situations will carve their 365 notches into a piece of wood or scratch them into the walls of their cell.†  (source)
  • I tried to modulate my voice.†  (source)
  • He had been dancing about the stage, waving his spear, modulating his voice, and now suddenly he became still, and lowered his voice.†  (source)
  • The irony circuits cut in to his voice modulator as he mimicked the style of the sales brochure.†  (source)
  • The immigrants I know have loud voices, unmodulated to American tones even after years away from the village where they called their friendships out across the fields.†  (source)
    unmodulated = not modified
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unmodulated means not and reverses the meaning of modulated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • Cedric modulates the speed of his step to stay tucked in the middle of the crowd as it winds a quarter-mile to MIT's newish glass-and-steel dining hall, following a spicy aroma into a banquet room where a tower of pizza boxes is waiting, closed and still steaming.†  (source)
  • These were attached to a battery of electronic equipment—imagery intensifiers, rhythmic modulators, alliterative residulators and simile dumpers—all designed to heighten the experience of the poem and make sure that not a single nuance of the poet's thought was lost.†  (source)
  • Then her voice modulated back to a comforting purr.†  (source)
    modulated = regulated
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