| 单词 | modulation |
| 释义 | modulation (once / 5738 pages) n Modulation is when you control or adjust something, like when you lower your voice to a loud whisper in order to make what you're saying more dramatic and mysterious. The noun modulation has several meanings, including a change of key in music or of the sound of a person's voice. It almost always involves some kind of deliberate modification or slight change, like an actor adjusting his pitch or volume depending on the role he's playing or the mood of the scene. The Latin root, modulationem, has a musical meaning: "rhythm, singing and playing, or melody." WORD FAMILYmodulation: demodulation, modulations+/demodulate: demodulator/modulate: demodulate, modulated, modulates, modulating, modulation/modulated: unmodulated USAGE EXAMPLESAnd their most daring harmonic adventures—for example, the otherworldly modulations in the “Confiteor” of the B-Minor Mass—look ahead to Wagner, even to Schoenberg. The New Yorker(Dec 25, 2016) Further studies are needed to determine whether the modulation of CaMKII activity constitutes a molecular link between these phenomena. Nature(Nov 20, 2016) She shivered listening to the modulations of the Beatles. The New Yorker(Nov 24, 2016) 1n the act of modifying or adjusting according to due measure and proportion (as with regard to artistic effect) Hyper alteration, revision the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification) 2n a manner of speaking in which the loudness, pitch, or tone of the voice is modified Syn|Hyper inflection delivery, manner of speaking, speech your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally 3n rise and fall of the voice pitch Syn|Hypo|Hyper intonation, pitch contour intonation pattern intonations characteristic of questions and requests and statements drone, droning, monotonean unchanging intonation singsonga regular and monotonous rising and falling intonation inflection, prosody the patterns of stress and intonation in a language 4n a musical passage moving from one key to another Syn|Hyper transition musical passage, passage a short section of a musical composition 5n (electronics) the transmission of a signal by using it to vary a carrier wave; changing the carrier's amplitude or frequency or phase Hypo|Hyper AM, amplitude modulation modulation of the amplitude of the (radio) carrier wave FM, frequency modulationmodulation of the frequency of the (radio) carrier wave PM, phase modulationmodulation of the phase of the carrier wave pulse modulationmodulation that imposes a signal on a train of pulses pulse-time modulationmodulation of the time between successive pulses transmission communication by means of transmitted signals |
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