amplitude

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The amplitude, or non-amplitude, of the family figure was beginning to get upon her nerves.

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  1. noun Greatness of size; magnitude.
  2. noun Fullness; copiousness.
  3. noun Breadth or range, as of intelligence.
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  • Unlike the effects of stimulation duration on gaze amplitude, the amplitude and duration of evoked head movements did not saturate for the range of durations tested (10-400 ms), but continued to increase linearly with increases in stimulation duration. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • This will lead to a severe change in the t dependence of the real part and of the slope of the elastic scattering amplitude, and in turn this may bias the measurement of the total cross section. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Fourier analysis of signals - amplitude, phase and power spectrum, auto-correlation and cross-correlation and their Fourier transforms. —  LearnHub Activities
  • * How intermodulation products (IMs) predictably change with signal amplitude, and why they sometimes change differently —  AvaxHome RSS:
  • P600 amplitude was a function of subcategorization biases rather than syntactic complexity. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin amplitūdō, from amplus, large.

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  1. from Latin amplitudo, from amplus, large: see ample and -tude.
 

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