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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

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

During testing, intensity images were analyzed to detect signatures related to amplitude, phase and polarization.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 29, 2026

Miss Ingram, who had now seated herself with proud grace at the piano, spreading out her snowy robes in queenly amplitude, commenced a brilliant prelude; talking meantime.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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

A Dutch oculist, Donders, has got up a table in which, opposite the amplitudes, the corresponding ages are found.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887 by Various




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