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English
Etymology
From modulate + -or.
Noun
modulator (plural modulators)
- A person who modulates.
- 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.
- (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
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Latin
Verb
modulātor
- 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)
- modulator
Declension