modulate
verb🔊/ˈmɒdjəleɪt/
🔊/ˈmɑːdʒəleɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they modulate | 🔊/ˈmɒdjəleɪt/ 🔊/ˈmɑːdʒəleɪt/ |
| he / she / it modulates | 🔊/ˈmɒdjəleɪts/ 🔊/ˈmɑːdʒəleɪts/ |
| past simple modulated | 🔊/ˈmɒdjəleɪtɪd/ 🔊/ˈmɑːdʒəleɪtɪd/ |
| past participle modulated | 🔊/ˈmɒdjəleɪtɪd/ 🔊/ˈmɑːdʒəleɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form modulating | 🔊/ˈmɒdjəleɪtɪŋ/ 🔊/ˈmɑːdʒəleɪtɪŋ/ |
- [transitive] modulate something (formal)
to change the quality of your voice in order to create a particular effect by making it louder, softer, lower, etc. 调节（嗓音的大小、强弱、高低等） - [intransitive] modulate (from something) (to/into something) (
music 音乐 to change from one musical key (= set of notes) to another 变调；转调 - [transitive] modulate something (specialist)
to affect something so that it becomes more regular, slower, etc. 调整；调节；控制 drugs that effectively modulate the disease process 可以有效控制疾病发展的药品
- [transitive] modulate something (specialist)
to change the rate at which a sound wave or radio signal vibrates (= the frequency) so that it is clearer 调制（声波或无线电波频率）；调谐
Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘intone a song’): from Latin modulat- ‘measured, made melody’, from the verb modulari, from modulus ‘measure’, diminutive of modus.