"modulator" meaning in English

See modulator in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-modulator.wav Forms: modulators [plural]
Etymology: From modulate + -or. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|modulate|or}} modulate + -or Head templates: {{en-noun}} modulator (plural modulators)
  1. A person who modulates.
    Sense id: en-modulator-en-noun-20Bc0VSM Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -or, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Welsh translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 43 32 25 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -or: 54 25 21 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 57 27 16 Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 52 24 24 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 53 29 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 70 15 15 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 69 16 15 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 71 16 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 73 15 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 73 15 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 64 14 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 73 15 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Welsh translations: 71 17 12
  2. A device or thing that modulates. Translations (device that modulates): 調制器 /调制器 (Chinese Mandarin), 調製器 /调制器 (tiáozhìqì) (Chinese Mandarin), modulaattori (Finnish), modulateur [masculine] (French), Modulator [masculine] (German), modulatore [masculine] (Italian), 変調器 (henchōki) (alt: へんちょうき) (Japanese), модуля́тор (moduljátor) [masculine] (Russian), trosiadur [masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-modulator-en-noun-yKQGS81- Disambiguation of 'device that modulates': 22 74 4
  3. (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. Categories (topical): Music
    Sense id: en-modulator-en-noun-Ym63LV9G Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: phase modulator, pulse modulator Related terms: modulation

Inflected forms

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "phase modulator"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "pulse modulator"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "modulate",
        "3": "or"
      },
      "expansion": "modulate + -or",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From modulate + -or.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "modulators",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "modulator (plural modulators)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "modulation"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "43 32 25",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "54 25 21",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -or",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "57 27 16",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "52 24 24",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 3 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "53 29 18",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "70 15 15",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "69 16 15",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with French translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "71 16 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with German translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "73 15 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Italian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "73 15 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Japanese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "64 14 22",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Mandarin translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "73 15 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Russian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "71 17 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Welsh translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person who modulates."
      ],
      "id": "en-modulator-en-noun-20Bc0VSM",
      "links": [
        [
          "modulate",
          "modulate"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1654, Richard Whitlock, Zootomia; Or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English:",
          "text": "[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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A device or thing that modulates."
      ],
      "id": "en-modulator-en-noun-yKQGS81-",
      "links": [
        [
          "modulate",
          "modulate"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "22 74 4",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "device that modulates",
          "word": "調制器 /调制器"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "22 74 4",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "tiáozhìqì",
          "sense": "device that modulates",
          "word": "調製器 /调制器"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "22 74 4",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "device that modulates",
          "word": "modulaattori"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "22 74 4",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "device that modulates",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "modulateur"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "22 74 4",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "device that modulates",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Modulator"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "22 74 4",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "device that modulates",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "modulatore"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "22 74 4",
          "alt": "へんちょうき",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "henchōki",
          "sense": "device that modulates",
          "word": "変調器"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "22 74 4",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "moduljátor",
          "sense": "device that modulates",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "модуля́тор"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "22 74 4",
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "device that modulates",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "trosiadur"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Music",
          "orig": "en:Music",
          "parents": [
            "Art",
            "Sound",
            "Culture",
            "Energy",
            "Society",
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
      "id": "en-modulator-en-noun-Ym63LV9G",
      "links": [
        [
          "music",
          "music"
        ],
        [
          "chart",
          "chart"
        ],
        [
          "tonic",
          "tonic"
        ],
        [
          "sol-fa",
          "sol-fa"
        ],
        [
          "notation",
          "notation"
        ],
        [
          "scale",
          "scale"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(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."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "entertainment",
        "lifestyle",
        "music"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-modulator.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/61/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-modulator.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-modulator.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/61/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-modulator.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-modulator.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "modulator"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms suffixed with -or",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 3 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Japanese translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Welsh translations"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "phase modulator"
    },
    {
      "word": "pulse modulator"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "modulate",
        "3": "or"
      },
      "expansion": "modulate + -or",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From modulate + -or.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "modulators",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "modulator (plural modulators)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "modulation"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A person who modulates."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "modulate",
          "modulate"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1654, Richard Whitlock, Zootomia; Or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English:",
          "text": "[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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A device or thing that modulates."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "modulate",
          "modulate"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Music"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "music",
          "music"
        ],
        [
          "chart",
          "chart"
        ],
        [
          "tonic",
          "tonic"
        ],
        [
          "sol-fa",
          "sol-fa"
        ],
        [
          "notation",
          "notation"
        ],
        [
          "scale",
          "scale"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(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."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "entertainment",
        "lifestyle",
        "music"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-modulator.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/61/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-modulator.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-modulator.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/61/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-modulator.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-modulator.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "device that modulates",
      "word": "調制器 /调制器"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "tiáozhìqì",
      "sense": "device that modulates",
      "word": "調製器 /调制器"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "device that modulates",
      "word": "modulaattori"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "device that modulates",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "modulateur"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "device that modulates",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Modulator"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "device that modulates",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "modulatore"
    },
    {
      "alt": "へんちょうき",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "henchōki",
      "sense": "device that modulates",
      "word": "変調器"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "moduljátor",
      "sense": "device that modulates",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "модуля́тор"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "device that modulates",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "trosiadur"
    }
  ],
  "word": "modulator"
}

Download raw JSONL data for modulator meaning in English (3.6kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-02 using wiktextract (32c88e6 and 633533e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.