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modulation
has definitions from the fields of electronics,music,fine art,rhetoric
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[ noun ] (music,fine art) a musical passage moving from one key to another
Synonyms Used in print (Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)And this occurs now , at the refrain of Jacoby 's song - at the point , in_fact , of the name `` Lizzy '' - ; a modulation described as `` almost a stroke of genius '' . It is this modulation which reveals to Jacoby his own frightful abjection and , simultaneously , his wife 's infidelity . |
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[ noun ] (electronics) the transmission of a signal by imposing it on a carrier wave by changing the carrier's amplitude or frequency or phase
Used in print (James A. Ibers et al., "Proton magnetic resonance...)A modulation frequency of 40 cps with an amplitude as small as possible , commensurate with reasonably good signal-to-noise quality , was used . Corrections were applied for modulation broadening , apparatus background , and field shift . |
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[ noun ] (rhetoric) rise and fall of the voice pitch
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[ noun ] (rhetoric) a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified
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