amplitude
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6.1
- noun
- /ˈæmplɪˌtud/
- Specialized
:
amplitud
- You can visualize the amplitude of a vibration by looking at the height of the wave on an oscilloscope.
- peak amplitude
- amplitude and frequency
- amplitude and duration
Then you will not have enough amplitude to break the glass.
- Then you will not have enough amplitude to break the glass.
- You won't have that huge jump in amplitude at that particular frequency range.
- You can see the amplitude stretch the graph vertically.
- I think that's probably very good for for small amplitude sound waves.
- And to do that, I just have to sum up all the amplitudes that lead to that state.
- I right now am studying the physics of scattering amplitudes for the like colliders.
- You add those two probability amplitudes and then you take mod squared of those.
- So we see these high amplitudes of gamma, not I mean very high, like very outside of normal.
Examples
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Height above the plane represents the amplitude of one polarization mode of waves at a fixed moment in time.
Academic text (1999) -
Placing the needle in the disk's grooves, I felt electrical impulses of variable amplitude being generated within the cartridge.
Fiction book (2000) -
Then you will not have enough amplitude to break the glass.
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This is a standing wave, a wave that can change amplitude but does not change position.
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The maximum amplitude is only 1.2 times the input.
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So high pitched things have high frequencies, high amplitude things are loud.
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The recorded sound will be represented by a waveform showing the amplitude of the sound as it changes over time.
Academic text (2011) -
Notice that the amplitude of this overtone is very low compared with the fundamental frequency.
Academic text (2011) -
They look at the reflected laser power, they look for differences in amplitude or in phase.
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All target nouns will be produced with similar movement amplitude and duration across weak and strong syllables.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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4.7
The size or importance of something compared to others
How strong a sound or signal is
Compounds
- Specialized
When an electronic device makes part of a signal louder or quieter than it should
How Large
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word amplitude comes from the old Latin word amplus, which means 'large' and is the same root as the English word ample. So amplitude is the 'size' or 'height' of something like a wave, and a bigger amplitude means a taller or stronger signal.