8 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
verb change the key of, in music
verb vary the pitch of one's speech
verb fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of
originFrom Latin modulor (“to measure, regulate, modulate”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix), from modulus (“measure”). Compare module, modulus. By surface analysis, modul(e) + -ate.
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