Articulation vs. Modulation

Articulationnoun

A joint or the collection of joints at which something is articulated, or hinged, for bending.

‘The articulation allowed the robot to move around corners.’;

Modulationnoun

The process of applying a signal to a carrier, modulating.

Articulationnoun

(countable) A manner or method by which elements of a system are connected.

Modulationnoun

The variation and regulation of a population, physiological response, etc.

Articulationnoun

(uncountable) The quality, clarity or sharpness of speech.

‘His volume is reasonable, but his articulation could use work.’;

Modulationnoun

(music) A change in key.

Articulationnoun

(linguistics) The manner in which a phoneme is pronounced.

Modulationnoun

The act of modulating, or the state of being modulated; as, the modulation of the voice.

Articulationnoun

The manner in which something is articulated (tongued, slurred or bowed).

‘The articulation in this piece is tricky because it alternates between legato and staccato.’;

Modulationnoun

Sound modulated; melody.

Articulationnoun

(accounting) The interrelation and congruence of the flow of data between financial statements of an entity, especially between the income statement and balance sheet.

Modulationnoun

A change of key, whether transient, or until the music becomes established in the new key; a shifting of the tonality of a piece, so that the harmonies all center upon a new keynote or tonic; the art of transition out of the original key into one nearly related, and so on, it may be, by successive changes, into a key quite remote. There are also sudden and unprepared modulations.

Articulationnoun

A joint or juncture between bones in the skeleton.

Modulationnoun

The alteration of hte amplitude, intensity, frequency, or phase (of the carrier wave of a radio signal) at intervals, so as to represent information to be transmitted.

Articulationnoun

The connection of the parts of a plant by joints, as in pods.

Modulationnoun

a musical passage moving from one key to another

Articulationnoun

The act of putting together with a joint or joints; any meeting of parts in a joint.

Modulationnoun

(electronics) the transmission of a signal by using it to vary a carrier wave; changing the carrier's amplitude or frequency or phase

Articulationnoun

The state of being jointed; connection of parts.

‘That definiteness and articulation of imagery.’;

Modulationnoun

rise and fall of the voice pitch

Articulationnoun

The utterance of the elementary sounds of a language by the appropriate movements of the organs, as in pronunciation; as, a distinct articulation.

Modulationnoun

a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified

Articulationnoun

A sound made by the vocal organs; an articulate utterance or an elementary sound, esp. a consonant.

Modulationnoun

the act of modifying or adjusting according to due measure and proportion (as with regard to artistic effect)

Articulationnoun

the aspect of pronunciation that involves bringing articulatory organs together so as to shape the sounds of speech

Modulation

In electronics and telecommunications, modulation is the process of varying one or more properties of a periodic waveform, called the carrier signal, with a separate signal called the modulation signal that typically contains information to be transmitted. For example, the modulation signal might be an audio signal representing sound from a microphone, a video signal representing moving images from a video camera, or a digital signal representing a sequence of binary digits, a bitstream from a computer.

Articulationnoun

the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made

Articulationnoun

expressing in coherent verbal form;

‘the articulation of my feelings’; ‘I gave voice to my feelings’;

Articulationnoun

(anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if the articulation allows motion)

Articulationnoun

the act of joining things in such a way that motion is possible