amplitude
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Instead, the researchers observed a local minimum in the oscillation amplitude across certain temperature ranges.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 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
She won hearts with her big amplitude off the halfpipe and funny pre-run tweets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026
Scientists measure the amplitude of sound waves in decibels.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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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
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
Here the ratio between the actual and expected amplitudes is not so great as in the northern hemisphere.
From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Ellsworth Huntington
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