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in electronics, the transmission of a signal by using it to vary a carrier wave
The modulation failed.
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modulations
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biomodulationchemomodulationchronomodulationcomodulationcross-modulationdemodulationdownmodulationdysmodulationimmunomodulationintermodulationmechanomodulationmetamodulation
Etymology
From Late Middle English modulacion, modulacioun (“act of making music or singing; harmony; melody, song”), from Middle French modulation (modern French modulation), and directly from its etymon Latin modulātiō (“regular or rhythmical measure, modulation; inflection of tone; (architecture) calculation of measurements from a standard unit; (Late Latin) act of making music or singing; melody, song”), from modulātus (“modulated”) + -iō (suffix forming abstract nouns from verbs). Modulātus is a perfect participle of modulor (“to beat time; to make music or sing; to measure; etc.”), from modulus (“...
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