modulator
Americannoun
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a person or thing that modulates.
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Telecommunications. a device for modulating a carrier wave.
Etymology
Origin of modulator
Example Sentences
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Cons: Have to play around the Illudium G-36 Explosive Space Modulator; the aliens behind the Face on Mars might charge green fees; planet needs women.
From Golf Digest • Jun. 24, 2017
She reminds me of the tiny Martian from Looney Tunes – "Illudium Pu-36 Explosive Space Modulator".
From The Guardian • Jul. 27, 2012
She wrote a letter to the President on the assumption that only high-ranking U.S. officials knew of the Modulator.
From Time Magazine Archive
She contributed her carefully garnered life savings to the new Modulator corporation; her $38,000, in fact, put it in business.
From Time Magazine Archive
I was dreadfully floored by this answer, and could only mutter mechanically, "Dross," "Missionary,'" "Modulator," in a vain effort to seize the situation.
From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Holmes, Daniel Turner
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