dampings

The deterministic chaos has most probably its origin in the non linear interaction between feed back loops that produce a mixture of amplifications and dampings whose relative strength is changing all the time .

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"They must be gone now, Shanter," Rifle said at last, after two or three dampings from that black sage.

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