rarefaction

Example Sentences

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In reaching these heights of fancy, however, the movie achieves, to use one of Glaisher’s own words, “rarefaction.”

From The New Yorker

To investigate how mean tag sequence prevalence changes with increasing sequencing depth across environments, we calculated the average mean tag sequence prevalence across three replicate rarefactions.

From Nature

Here is art that turns confectionery into both rarefaction and panache.

From New York Times

The compressions and rarefactions are rapidly transmitted through the air from the original source as a  wave, making sound.

From Scientific American

This is how noise-canceling headphones work—they produce a sound wave that resembles the wave responsible for the unwanted sound, but with the original phases of rarefaction and compression flipped.

From Scientific American