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
Instead, the researchers observed a local minimum in the oscillation amplitude across certain temperature ranges.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026
“Not really. Eventually, maybe. But not the initial amplitude; that’s outside conscious control. If it weren’t—”
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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"We now have a better understanding of the basic assumptions we can make, as well as stronger techniques for translating these assumptions into properties of scattering amplitudes and other observables."
From Science Daily ● May 19, 2026
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
She wore a wig, walked with a staff, spoke with a Mayfair intonation in a high-pitched voice, and, in the amplitudes of widowhood and wealth, entertained frequently but cared only for her son.
From The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident by Edgar Saltus
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