modulant

modulant (plural modulants)

1. Something that serves to modify something else.
   • 1911, William Churchill, The Polynesian Wanderings, page 368:

     These senses are not restrictive in the languages which have both stems, and we are not warranted in suggesting more than that there may have been a distinctive value to each of the terminal consonant modulants, but that in the drift along the ages and across the seas the distinction has in some places become obscured.

   • 2001, Suzanne Catty, Hydrosols: The Next Aromatherapy:

     Essential oils are known immune modulants, and because they are so concentrated, it is reasonable to assume that, in certain cases, some oils may be too strong for some systems.

• immunomodulant
• paramodulant

modulant

1. gerund of modular

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modulant

1. present participle of moduler

• “modulant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.