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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈmɒd͡ʒɪleɪt/, /ˈmɒd͡ʒəˌleɪt/
• (General American, dialects of Canada) IPA: /ˈmɑ.d͡ʒəˌleɪt/, /ˈmɑ.djuˌleɪt/
• (Canada, dialects of the 米国発音) IPA: /ˈmɒd͡ʒɪˌleɪt/, /ˈmɒd͡ʒəˌleɪt/
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈmɔd͡ʒəˌlæɪt/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈmɒd͡ʒəˌlæɪt/

動詞

modulate (third-person singular simple present modulates, present participle modulating, simple past and past participle modulated)

1. (transitive) To regulate, adjust or adapt.
   1. (transitive) To change the pitch, intensity or tone of one's voice or of a musical instrument.
      • 1980 April 19, Andrea Loewenstein, “Random Lust”, in Gay Community News, page 10:

        "Can you tell?" she asked, in a trembling but well modulated and sensual voice.

   2. (transitive, electronics) To vary the amplitude, frequency or phase of a carrier wave in proportion to the amplitude etc of a source wave (such as speech or music).
   3. (intransitive, music) To move from one key or tonality to another, especially by using a chord progression.

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Further reading

• “modulate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “modulate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

参照

• “modulate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “modulate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “modulate”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.