modulator
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See also: Modulator
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]modulator (plural modulators)
- A person who modulates.
- A device or thing that modulates.
- 1654, Richard Whitlock, Zootomia; Or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English:
- [Poetry] is a most musicall Modulator of all Intelligibles by her inventive Variations, undulling their Grossenesse, and subliming it into more refined Acceptablenesse to our own, or others understandings.
- (music) A chart in the tonic sol-fa notation on which the modulations or changes from one scale to another are shown by the relative position of the notes.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]device that modulates
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Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]modulātor
References
[edit]- “modulator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “modulator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- modulator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- modulator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French modulateur. By surface analysis, modula + -tor.
Noun
[edit]modulator n (plural modulatori)
Declension
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | modulator | modulatorul | modulatori | modulatorile | |
genitive-dative | modulator | modulatorului | modulatori | modulatorilor | |
vocative | modulatorule | modulatorilor |
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