Modulation

Quick meaning: Modulation is a noun meaning (uncountable) Modification or regulation of something to achieve an appropriate measure or proportion; (countable) an instance of this.

Meaning

(uncountable) Modification or regulation of something to achieve an appropriate measure or proportion; (countable) an instance of this.

More Meanings

1. Modification or regulation of something to achieve an appropriate measure or proportion; (countable) an instance of this.
2. (uncountable) Changing of a thing from one form to another; (countable) an instance of this.
3. Harmonious use of language in poetry or prose.
4. Any of the musical notes in ecclesiastical modes of music on which a melodic phrase had to begin and end.
5. Making music or singing; (countable) a melody, a tune; also (chiefly in the plural), a musical note.
6. Arrangement or composition, or performance, of music in a certain key or mode; also (countable) a series of musical notes, chord, or tune analyzed according to a key or mode.
7. Modification of the parts of a classical Greek or Roman building to achieve appropriate proportions by measuring in modules (“standard units of measure, usually the diameter or radius of a column at the base of a shaft”).

Example Sentences

There was a touching modulation in these words about her father that Walter understood too well.

Join'd to Theſe [birds], / Thouſands beſide, thick as the covering Leaves / VVhich ſpeck them o'er, their Modulations mix / Mellifluous.

I will sing of thy mercy and judgment, says David; when we fix ourselves upon the meditation and modulation of the mercy of God, even his judgments cannot put us out of tune, but we shall sing and be cheerful even in them.

About Theatres, ſaith He [Vitruvius], are Porticoes, and VValks, vvhich appear ought to be ſo placed, as they muſt be double. And have the outvvard Columns Dorick vvith Architraves, and Ornaments made from the rule of the Dorick modulation.

Word Forms

• modulations

Synonyms for modulation

Depending on context, synonyms include transition.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include transition, demodulation, alignment, shaping, variation, diversification.

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