modulator

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noun

A person who modulates.

OriginEnglish modulate ← Latin modulor ← Proto-Italic *medos →
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Meanings

nounmodulator (plural modulators)

plural modulators

  1. A person who modulates.
  2. A device or thing that modulates.

    [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.

    1654, Richard Whitlock, Zootomia; Or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English
  3. entertainmentA 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.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*med-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*médos
  3. Proto-Italic*medos
  4. Latinmodus
  5. Latinmodulus
  6. Latinmodulor
  7. Englishmodulate
  8. Englishmodulator

From modulate + -or.

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Translations

Chinese Mandarin 調制器 /调制器, 調製器 /调制器
  • 調制器 /调制器device that modulates
  • 調製器 /调制器 (tiáozhìqì)device that modulates
Finnish modulaattori
  • modulaattoridevice that modulates
French modulateur
  • modulateurdevice that modulates
German Modulator
  • Modulatordevice that modulates
Italian modulatore
  • modulatoredevice that modulates
Japanese 変調器
  • 変調器 (henchōki)device that modulates
Polish modulator
  • modulatordevice that modulates
Russian модуля́тор
  • модуля́тор (moduljátor)device that modulates
Welsh trosiadur
  • trosiadurdevice that modulates
Cite this entry
APA

modulator. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/modulator

MLA

“modulator.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/modulator. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “modulator,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/modulator.

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