phenomena

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The name for this phenomena is the "Law of Limiting

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  • Doctor Beard wrote a treatise of some length on the subject, in which he concurred with Edison's deduction that the phenomena were the manifestation of oscillations, or rapidly reversing waves of electricity, which did not respond to the usual tests. —  Edison, His Life and Inventions
  • One of the common uses to which modern science has put the phenomena is the common crystal microphone, widely used by radio stations, in microphones for public address systems. —  112 - The Speaking Stone
  • That's crazy talk The phenomena--the word phenomena was a mild description of it too--came to Spad Ames' attention in a round-about way, and when he was not expecting anything like men of stone. —  080 - The Stone Man
  • I've experimented enough to know that the phenomena is actually caused by the electronic field resisting the intrusion of any foreign object. —  130 - The Spook of Grandpa Eben
  • The significance of the phenomena was already clear to him. —  Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence
 

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