amplitude
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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
By examining how the strength of electronic order at one location relates to that at another, the researchers showed how coherence breaks down across the transition while local amplitude remains present.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 28, 2026
Olympic halfpipes are 6.7m high, with Atkin achieving an amplitude of more than 5m during her final.
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2026
The amplitude of a sound is a particular number, usually measured in decibels, but dynamics are relative; an orchestra playing fortissimo sounds much louder than a single violin playing fortissimo.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
"The scattering amplitudes don't go to infinity. It's better behaved."
From Science Daily ● May 19, 2026
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
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
Today, with the world 1.2 C warmer than pre-industrial times, people are already experiencing the effects of climate change in more locations, more forms and at higher frequencies and amplitudes.
From Salon ● Dec. 5, 2022
Disturbances of the former kind lead to vibrations of harmonic type, whose amplitudes always remain small; but disturbances, whose wave-length exceeds the circumference, result in a greater and greater departure from the cylindrical figure.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various
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