modulator
See also: Modulator
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
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 edit
Translations edit
device that modulates
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Latin edit
Verb edit
modulātor
References edit
- “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 edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French modulateur. By surface analysis, modula + -tor.
Noun edit
modulator n (plural modulatori)
Declension edit
Declension of modulator
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) modulator | modulatorul | (niște) modulatori | modulatorile |
genitive/dative | (unui) modulator | modulatorului | (unor) modulatori | modulatorilor |
vocative | modulatorule | modulatorilor |