Usually means: Adjust or alter frequency, amplitude, phase.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word modulate:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. modulate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. modulate: Merriam-Webster
  3. modulate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. modulate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. modulate: Collins English Dictionary
  6. modulate: Vocabulary.com
  7. Modulate, modulate: Wordnik
  8. modulate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. modulate: Wiktionary
  10. modulate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. modulate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. modulate: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. modulate: Dictionary.com
  14. modulate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Modulate (album), Modulate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Modulate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. modulate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. modulate: Rhymezone
  19. Modulate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. modulate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. modulate: FreeDictionary.org
  22. modulate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. modulate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. modulate: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Modulate: CCI Computer
  2. modulate: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  3. modulate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. modulate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. modulate: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  4. modulate: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. modulate: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Modulate: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. modulate: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To regulate, adjust or adapt
verb:  (transitive) To change the pitch, intensity or tone of one's voice or of a musical instrument
verb:  (transitive, 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)
verb:  (intransitive, music) to move from one key or tonality to another, especially by using a chord progression

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