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Definition
to regulate or make something less severeor:
alter the pitch of one's voice; or other things such as the sound of a musical instrument or the characteristics of electromagnetic waves
- She wants the Fed to try to modulate the ups and downs of the stock market.
- The gene modulates the excitability of neurons.
- She modulates her speaking voice as though it were a musical instrument.
- modulate the pitch
- modulate the melody
- She could not modulate out the key of self-abasement in which she had started.Forster, E. M. -- A Room With A View
- Why should not the symmetry and truth that modulate these, glide into our spirits, and we participate the invention of nature?Emerson, Ralph Waldo -- Essays, Second Series
- And I felt the cold metallic hardness of my words as I spoke, the modulation, the control.Anne Rice -- Interview with the Vampire
- There was motion and stillness, stillness and modulation, and all the charge and magic of a great painting.Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch
- This subtle modulation marked a momentous discovery—the perception of an entirely new attitude on the part of her listener.Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2
- This subtle modulation marked a momentous discovery—the perception of an entirely new attitude on the part of her listener.Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
- Far away the grandparents huddle in a chair, eagerly sharing the receiver as carrier waves modulate into audible signals.Don DeLillo -- White Noise
- She said nothing, but used her hands to modulate Mammachi's fury, to stoke it anew.Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
- I think I can rig a modulator on this baby, then, and make it into a gertrude for ya.Tom Clancy -- The Hunt for Red October
- The former curves of sensuousness were now modulated to lines of devotional passion.Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- "Good evening!" he says with that perfectly modulated voice that announcers seem to be born with.Sharon M. Draper -- Out of My Mind
- I am certain of it; his languishing looks and modulated tones when addressing Mademoiselle Danglars fully proclaim his intentions.Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
- He had a non-committal voice, beautifully modulated—its words might have meant the opposite of what they said.T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
- His voice was slightly modulated but easy to understand.John Green -- Paper Towns
- There was amaze in the voice usually so even and well modulated—amaze in the handsome face usually so indifferent.Zane Grey -- The Light of Western Stars
(editor's note: 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.)
(editor's note: 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.)
(editor's note: 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.)
(editor's note: 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.)