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
The nature of this interaction depended on the oscillator's frequency and amplitude.
From Science Daily ● May 5, 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 amplitude of the wave is a measure of the displacement: how big is the change from no displacement to the peak of a wave?
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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
These were long-lasting, slow oscillations with large amplitudes, which indicates relatively strong electrical activity.
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2023
De Bois in his table of amplitudes points out that more than half the sea disturbances at any given space are caused, not by the wind, but by storms at a great distance.
From The Blue Lagoon: a romance by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
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