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amplitude

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




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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

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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