amplitude

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

Even minute amounts of strain, far too small to detect with conventional optical methods, were enough to significantly weaken the CDW amplitude.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 28, 2026

The amplitude of a sound is a particular number, usually measured in decibels, but dynamics are relative; an orchestra playing fortissimo sounds much louder than a single violin playing fortissimo.

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

Out of the moist earth it has sprung; In the gracious amplitudes of her bosom it was nurtured, And in it is wrought the miracle of life.

From The Song of the Stone Wall by Helen Keller