different between modulator vs coupler

English

Etymology

modulate +? -or

Noun

modulator (plural modulators)

1. A person who modulates.
2. A device or thing that modulates.
   • 1654, Richard Whitlock, Zootomia; Or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English

     [Poetry] is a most musicall Modulator of all Intelligibles by her inventive Variations, undulling their Grossenesse, and subliming it into more refined Acceptablenesse to our own, or others understandings.

3. (music) A chart in the tonic sol-fa notation on which the modulations or changes from one scale to another are shown by the relative position of the notes.

Translations

Latin

Verb

modul?tor

1. second-person singular future active imperative of modulor
2. third-person singular future active imperative of modulor

References

• modulator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• modulator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• modulator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• modulator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Romanian

Etymology

From French modulateur

Noun

modulator n (plural modulatori)

1. modulator

Declension

English

Etymology

From couple +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?pl?/

Noun

coupler (plural couplers)

1. (now rare) Someone who couples things together, especially someone whose job it is to couple railway carriages.
2. Anything that serves to couple things together; but especially a device that couples railway carriages.
3. (music) A device that connects two keyboards of an organ together so that they play together.
4. A device used to convert electronic information into audible sound signals for transmission over telephone lines.
5. An electrical device used to transfer energy from one electric device to another, especially without a physical connection.

Translations

French

Etymology

From Latin c?pul?re, present active infinitive of c?pul?. Doublet of the borrowed copuler.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku.ple/

Verb

coupler

1. to couple

Conjugation

Derived terms

• accoupler
• découpler

Further reading

• “coupler” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).