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
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
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
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And although the amplitudes of the variation are low, there are clear effects on the extent of North Atlantic sea ice and on the temperatures in Greenland.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2023
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
The variation of the compass I found by several amplitudes to be 2 degrees 30 minutes west.
From Journals of Australian Explorations by Augustus Charles Gregory
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