amplitude
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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
A key achievement of the work is the first direct measurement of correlations in CDW amplitude.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 28, 2026
Polly read the page-long letter, bristling with words like amplitude, parallax, and refraction.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
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By pitching the blade back and forth at different angles, speeds, and amplitudes, they generated series of 'pitch profiles'.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 3, 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
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
Notice also that the peaks have nearly identical amplitudes.
From The Egyptian Cat Mystery by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin
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