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What does modulate mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word modulate? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To regulate, adjust or adapt
  2. (transitive) To change the pitch, intensity or tone of one's voice or of a musical instrument
  3. (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)
  4. (music) to move from one key or tonality to another, especially by using a chord progression
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Phasers can be used to slightly modulate or heavily distort the signal spectrum.
These modulate the neuronal circuits that are thought to be dysfunctional in such disorders.
They have never heard sounds, so can't understand tones or pitches, or modulate their speech.
Such simulations can, however, display rapid small amplitude motions that modulate the quadrupole interaction about its average.
These residues modulate the structural deformations caused by the pyrrolidine ring of Pro.
Envy is not a pleasurable emotion nor one that human beings will attempt to modulate.

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