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MODULATED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Altered in volume as well as tone or pitch
Classified under:
Similar:
inflected ((of the voice) altered in tone or pitch)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Changed or adjusted in pitch, tone, or volume
Classified under:
Similar:
softened (toned down)
Antonym:
unmodulated (characterized by lack of variation in pitch, tone, or volume)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb modulate
Context examples:
There are 3 mobile phone operators and one radio antenna, an FM radio, so modulated frequencies.
(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)
Any physiologic process that results in modulated metabolism of estrone, estradiol and estriol in both females and males.
(Estrogen Metabolism Alteration, NCI Thesaurus)
Also called intensity-modulated radiation therapy.
(IMRT, NCI Dictionary)
She could not help but measure the professors, neat, scholarly, in fitting clothes, speaking in well-modulated voices, breathing of culture and refinement, with this almost indescribable young fellow whom somehow she loved, whose clothes never would fit him, whose heavy muscles told of damning toil, who grew excited when he talked, substituting abuse for calm statement and passionate utterance for cool self-possession.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He spoke this with a voice so modulated to the different feelings expressed in his speech, with an eye so full of lofty design and heroism, that can you wonder that these men were moved?
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
