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MODULATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of modifying or adjusting according to due measure and proportion (as with regard to artistic effect)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("modulation" is a kind of...):
alteration; revision (the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification))
Derivation:
modulate (fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(electronics) the transmission of a signal by using it to vary a carrier wave; changing the carrier's amplitude or frequency or phase
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("modulation" is a kind of...):
transmission (communication by means of transmitted signals)
Domain category:
electronics (the branch of physics that deals with the emission and effects of electrons and with the use of electronic devices)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "modulation"):
AM; amplitude modulation (modulation of the amplitude of the (radio) carrier wave)
FM; frequency modulation (modulation of the frequency of the (radio) carrier wave)
phase modulation; PM (modulation of the phase of the carrier wave)
pulse modulation (modulation that imposes a signal on a train of pulses)
Derivation:
modulate (vary the frequency, amplitude, phase, or other characteristic of (electromagnetic waves))
Sense 3
Meaning:
A manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("modulation" is a kind of...):
delivery; manner of speaking; speech (your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally)
Derivation:
modulate (adjust the pitch, tone, or volume of)
modulate (vary the pitch of one's speech)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Rise and fall of the voice pitch
Synonyms:
intonation; modulation; pitch contour
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("modulation" is a kind of...):
inflection; prosody (the patterns of stress and intonation in a language)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "modulation"):
intonation pattern (intonations characteristic of questions and requests and statements)
drone; droning; monotone (an unchanging intonation)
singsong (a regular and monotonous rising and falling intonation)
Derivation:
modulate (vary the pitch of one's speech)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A musical passage moving from one key to another
Synonyms:
modulation; transition
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("modulation" is a kind of...):
musical passage; passage (a short section of a musical composition)
Derivation:
modulate (change the key of, in music)
Context examples:
This protein plays a role in the modulation of signaling during hypoxic stress and angiogenesis.
(Angiopoietin-Related Protein 4, NCI Thesaurus)
This gene is involved in the modulation of gene expression.
(MIR34A Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
This allele, which encodes MIR375 pre-miRNA, is involved in the modulation of gene expression.
(MIR375 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
This protein is involved in the modulation of tetrahydrofolate synthesis and other folate metabolic processes.
(Monofunctional C1-Tetrahydrofolate Synthase, Mitochondrial, NCI Thesaurus)
This allele, which encodes protein AF-17, is involved in the modulation of transcription by RNA polymerase II.
(MLLT6 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
This gene is involved in the modulation of neutrophil microbicidal activity.
(MPO Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
This allele, which encodes double-strand break repair protein MRE11A, is involved in the modulation of DNA recombination, telomere maintenance and double-strand break repair.
(MRE11A wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
This gene is involved in the modulation of translation.
(MSI1 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
This allele, which encodes protein AF-9, plays a role in modulation of transcription by RNA polymerase II (Gene Ontology/GO).
(MLLT3 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
This allele, which encodes zinc finger protein HRX, is involved in the modulation of transcription by RNA Polymerase II.
(MLL wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
