modulate.
To regulate, adjust or adapt.
Meaning & usage
To regulate, adjust or adapt. To change the pitch, intensity or tone of one's voice or of a musical instrument.
To regulate, adjust or adapt. 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).
To regulate, adjust or adapt. To move from one key or tonality to another, especially by using a chord progression.
Where this word comes from
From Latin modulor (“to measure, regulate, modulate”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix), from modulus (“measure”). Compare module, modulus. By surface analysis, modul(e) + -ate.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.