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amplitude

[am-pli-tood, -tyood] / ˈæm plɪˌtud, -ˌtjud /




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You leave the high vaulted plaza—Roman in its sense of amplitude, an oculus high above—and turn right to enter the lobby.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Instead, the researchers observed a local minimum in the oscillation amplitude across certain temperature ranges.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026

Although long-term agreements from memory companies and a redesign of AI chips to address memory constraints “could flatten the amplitude of the cycle,” Moore said those factors should increase the duration of the memory boom.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026

Magnitudes on the Richter scale are measured logarithmically, with each whole number increase representing ten times more in measured amplitude.

From Barron's ● May 11, 2026

Your forbearance in this matter shall be a testimony to the equilibrium of your temperament, and provide us with yet another example of the amplitude of your generosity.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

And although the amplitudes of the variation are low, there are clear effects on the extent of North Atlantic sea ice and on the temperatures in Greenland.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2023

This created pressure waves with particular amplitudes, which were stretched out by later cosmic expansion to a bit less than half a billion light-years.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 27, 2023

In the earlier research into octopus brain waves, scientists described slow and prolonged oscillations with large amplitudes, unlike any brain wave produced by other animals.

From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2023

This model works well enough for lower swinging amplitudes, but it falls apart as the amplitude of a swing increases.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 6, 2023

The variations of the surveying compass, from amplitudes taken near different parts of Groote Eylandt during the circumnavigation, were these:-- Near the main, opp. the S.W.

From A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 by Matthew Flinders




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