modulant means something that serves to modify something else. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 92 out of 100.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin modulāns. By surface analysis, modulate + -ant.
noun
- Something that serves to modify something else.“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.”