modulation

modulation is a 10-letter English word with 8 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of modulating, or the state of being modulated; as, the modulation of the voice. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 17 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act of modulating, or the state of being modulated; as, the modulation of the voice.
2. noun. Sound modulated; melody.
3. noun. A change of key, whether transient, or until the music becomes established in the new key; a shifting of the tonality of a piece, so that the harmonies all center upon a new keynote or tonic; the art of transition out of the original key into one nearly related, and so on, it may be, by successive changes, into a key quite remote. There are also sudden and unprepared modulations.
4. noun. the act of modifying or adjusting according to due measure and proportion (as with regard to artistic effect)
5. noun. (electronics) the transmission of a signal by using it to vary a carrier wave; changing the carrier's amplitude or frequency or phase
6. noun. a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified

   Synonyms: inflection

7. noun. rise and fall of the voice pitch

   Synonyms: intonation

8. noun. a musical passage moving from one key to another

   Synonyms: transition

Synonyms

inflection, intonation, transition

Common word forms

modulations

Words from these letters

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