modulator

noun — 3 senses

modulator

noun

Etymology From modulate + -or.

1

A person who modulates.

2

A device or thing that modulates.

  • [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.1654, Richard Whitlock, Zootomia; Or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English:
3

Entertainment, Lifestyle, 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
biomodulator, comodulator, cryomodulator, immunomodulator, myomodulator, neuromodulator, oncomodulator, phase modulator, pulse modulator, radiomodulator, selective androgen receptor modulator, vasomodulator
Related terms
modulation

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