Vocabulary : Modular to Modus

Modular : Of or pertaining to mode, modulation, module, or modius; as, modular arrangement; modular accent; modular measure.
Modulate : To form, as sound, to a certain key, or to a certain portion. ;; To vary or inflect in a natural, customary, or musical manner; as, the organs of speech modulate the voice in reading or speaking. ;; To pass from one key into another.
Modulated : of Modulate
Modulating : of Modulate
Modulation : The act of modulating, or the state of being modulated; as, the modulation of the voice. ;; Sound modulated; melody. ;; 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.

Modulator : One who, or that which, modulates.
Module : A model or measure. ;; The size of some one part, as the diameter of semi-diameter of the base of a shaft, taken as a unit of measure by which the proportions of the other parts of the composition are regulated. Generally, for columns, the semi-diameter is taken, and divided into a certain number of parts, called minutes (see Minute), though often the diameter is taken, and any dimension is said to be so many modules and minutes in height, breadth, or projection. ;; To model; also, to modulate.
Moduli : of Modulus
Modulus : A quantity or coefficient, or constant, which expresses the measure of some specified force, property, or quality, as of elasticity, strength, efficiency, etc.; a parameter.
Modus : The arrangement of, or mode of expressing, the terms of a contract or conveyance. ;; A qualification involving the idea of variation or departure from some general rule or form, in the way of either restriction or enlargement, according to the circumstances of the case, as in the will of a donor, an agreement between parties, and the like. ;; A fixed compensation or equivalent given instead of payment of tithes in kind, expressed in full by the phrase modus decimandi.