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🛠️ Reducing movement 🔉 A reduction
damping

damping

1 5.3
Reducing vibrations in a machine or structure to make movement smaller
  • noun
  • /ˈdæmpɪŋ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : amortiguamiento
  • Relative weight and relative length of the residual limb determined which provided the highest damping for a given individual.
  • damping coefficient
  • stiffness and damping
  • damping rate

And that also has some sound damping foam on the additional steel panel.

Examples

  • Both responses are represented by a simple resonant system with stiffness, damping, and mass.

    Academic text (1998)

  • An effective damping mechanism helped reduce the oscillations of the bridge during the storm.

  • It's the closed loop damping ratio and the closed loop frequency.

  • The SACH, SAFE, and SEATTLE devices provided the highest damping for most subjects.

    Academic text (1991)

  • With a hardness of 80 Shore A, NBR provides the best damping capability among elastomeric elements.

    Academic text (1996)

  • The predicted decrease of the orbital period owing to gravitational radiation damping agrees with the observed decrease to better than 0.3%.

    Academic text (1999)

  • Using a patented silicon capacitive microsensor, near-critical gas damping results in a stable frequency response over temperature.

    Academic text (1995)

  • No significant correlation was found between stillness and damping coefficients and a self-reported diagnosis of OA.

    Academic text (2006)

  • The engineer measured the damping of the system to ensure minimal vibrations during operation.

  • The team designed a new material for damping that greatly minimizes noise in the machinery.

Antonyms

amplification
  • Specialized
8 5.3

Making an electric signal stronger, for example a sound or radio signal

Compounds

damping off
  • Specialized
8.0

A disease that makes young seedlings rot and die when the soil stays too wet

damping off fungus
  • Specialized
7.9

A fungus that kills young seedlings in wet soil

How Damped

damping
  • Specialized
1 5.3
undamped
  • Specialized
7.9

Surface Forms

damping singular
dampings plural

Morphology

damping = damp (transparent) = damp + ing

Regular -ing nominalization of the verb 'damp' describing the process of reducing vibrations; meaning is directly derived from the verb.

Etymology

Damping comes from the verb damp, which means 'to make less strong' and is also seen in dampen. So damping in machines is the process of reducing vibrations or movement to make things smoother and stop unwanted shaking.