Modulate vs Reflex - What's the difference?
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To regulate, adjust or adapt
To change the pitch, intensity or tone of one's voice or of a musical instrument
(electronics) to vary the amplitude, frequency or phase of a carrier wave in proportion to the amplitude etc of a source wave (such as speech or music)
(music) to move from one key or tonality to another, especially by using a chord progression
An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing.
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(linguistics) the descendant of an earlier language element, such as a word or phoneme, in a daughter language
(obsolete) Reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
* Shakespeare
* Tennyson
Bent, turned back or reflected.
* Sir M. Hale
Produced automatically by a stimulus.
(geometry, of an angle) Having greater than 180 degrees but less than 360 degrees.
* 1878 , James Maurice Wilson, Elementary Geometry , MacMillan,
* 1895 , David Eugen Smith and Wooster Woodruff Bernan, New Plane and Solid Geometry , page 7:
* 1958 , Howard Fehr, “On Teaching Dihedral Angle and Steradian” in The Mathematics Teacher , v 51, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, page 275:
* 1991 , B. Falcidieno et al, “Configurable Representations in Feature-based Modelling” in Eurographics '91: Proceedings , North-Holland, page 145:
* 2001 , Esther M. Arkin et al, “On the Reflexivity of Point Sets”, in Algorithms and data structures: 7th International Workshop, WADS 2001: Proceedings , Springer, page 195:
* 2004 , Ana Paula Tomás and António Leslie Bajuelos, “Quadratic-Time Linear-Space Algorithms Generating Orthogonal Polygons with a Given Number of Vertices”, in Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2004 Proceedings , part 3, Springer, page 117:
(photography) Of a camera or camera mechanism, using a mirror to reflect the image onto a ground-glass viewfinder, allowing the photographer to see it up to the moment of exposure.
to bend, turn back or reflect
to respond to a stimulus
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As verbs the difference between modulate and reflex
is that modulate is to regulate, adjust or adapt while reflex is to bend, turn back or reflect.As a noun reflex is
an automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing.As an adjective reflex is
bent, turned back or reflected.modulate
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Verb
(modulat)Derived terms
* amplitude modulation, AM * frequency modulation, FM * phase modulationExternal links
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(wikipedia reflex)Noun
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- Yon gray is not the morning's eye, / 'Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia's brow.
- On the depths of death there swims / The reflex of a human face.
Adjective
(en adjective)- the reflex act of the soul, or the turning of the intellectual eye inward upon its own actions
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- A polygon is said to be convex when no one of its angles is reflex .
- An angle less than a right angle is said to be acute''; one greater than a right angle but less than a straight angle is said to be ''obtuse''; one greater than a straight angle but less than a perigon is said to be ''reflex'' or ''convex .
- If the reflex' region is the interior of the angle, the dihedral angle is ' reflex .
- A reflex edge of a polyhedron is an edge where the inner dihedral angle subtended by two incident faces is greater than 180°.
- We say that an angle is convex if it is not reflex .
- P'' denotes a polygon and ''r the number of reflex vertices.