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
Researchers have developed a new holographic data storage method that records and retrieves information in three dimensions by combining three key properties of light -- amplitude, phase and polarization.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 29, 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 gauges, however, showed an amplitude within the green only.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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Compared to existing techniques, his team's incorporation of time-delay components enhanced the accuracy of SPM analysis, enabling the characterization of various polarized waves, including S-waves, and the detection of low-SNR events with smaller amplitudes.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 26, 2024
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
These were long-lasting, slow oscillations with large amplitudes, which indicates relatively strong electrical activity.
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2023
That is, they differ in the frequencies and amplitudes of these other component vibrations or “overtones” which are going on at the same time as their fundamental vibrations.
From Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by John Mills
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