modulator

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English

Etymology

From modulate +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

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Noun

modulator (plural modulators)

  1. A person who modulates.
  2. 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.
  3. (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

Translations

Latin

Verb

modulātor

  1. second/third-person singular future active imperative of modulor

References

  • 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

Etymology

Borrowed from French modulateur. By surface analysis, modula +‎ -tor.

Noun

modulator n (plural modulatori)

  1. modulator

Declension

singular plural
+ indefinite article + definite article + indefinite article + definite article
nominative/accusative (un) modulator modulatorul (niște) modulatori modulatorile
genitive/dative (unui) modulator modulatorului (unor) modulatori modulatorilor
vocative modulatorule modulatorilor