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modulation

[moj-uh-ley-shuhn, mod-yuh-] / ˌmɒdʒ əˈleɪ ʃən, ˌmɒd yə- /
NOUN
timbre
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Each laser transmitted data using a modulation method that splits information into multiple closely spaced frequency channels.

From Science Daily • Apr. 2, 2026

Here’s to a lifetime of dopamine modulation, I guess.

From Slate • Feb. 8, 2026

Compared to the fine modulation of an electric pedal, the GV70’s throttle response can often feel imprecise, a half-beat behind.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 2, 2025

Yet the production is so entrancing that the occasional lack of modulation by the performers hardly matters.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2025

Sometimes, in the course of the modulation of relations between animals, there are inventions that seem to have been thought up on the spur of the moment, like propositions to be submitted for possible evolution.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas