amplitude
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Ledisi also has a handsome and powerful voice that gives emotional amplitude to her songs, and she lends a quiet dignity to the proud Tallulah.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
Grahame Madge, a spokesperson for Britain's Met Office, told AFP: "This is very early, and possibly that earliness is triggered by the amplitude of the El Nino event in the Pacific."
From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026
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
According to the conventional Lifshitz-Kosevich model, the amplitude of quantum oscillations should steadily decrease as temperature rises.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 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
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By driving high-frequency magnon pairs via laser pulses, the physicists succeeded in changing the frequencies and amplitudes of other magnons -- and thus the magnetic properties of the material -- in a non-thermal way.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2025
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 measure'd faiths of other lands, the grandeurs of the past, Are not for thee, but grandeurs of thine own, Deific faiths and amplitudes, absorbing, comprehending all, All eligible to all.
From Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
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