How to Use amplitude in a Sentence

amplitude

noun

• Its volume gives the amplitude for that interaction to occur.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
• As the velocity of the wind changes so does the amplitude of the sound.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2022
• That means the qubit is encoded in the amplitude of the microwave field.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 28 Sep. 2017
• In March, the high slopes feel like a warm coast with the wide-open reflected light and the amplitude of snow so much like waves.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 14 Mar. 2020
• The Theragun Pro has an amplitude of 16mm with 60 pounds of stall force.
  — Kai Burkhardt, CNN Underscored, 28 Aug. 2020
• An example of the use of a log scale is for the amplitude (or wiggle) of earthquakes.
  — New York Times, 27 Feb. 2020
• In short, the kind of amplitude of flavor that makes most Champagnes seem light and simple.
  — Jay McInerney, Town & Country, 13 Dec. 2017
• Maybe, if cases don’t rise sharply enough, or to a high enough amplitude, the country won’t get there with BA.2 at all.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2022
• So, as the light electric field changes amplitude and direction, the electrons feel the force of the field and are driven back and forth.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2018
• The amplitudes are converted to log values (the Richter scale) and then plotted on a log scale.
  — New York Times, 27 Feb. 2020
• The whole idea of vault is to get enough momentum to perform a trick but have enough amplitude to drop straight down for the landing.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Mar. 2021
• The researchers also found that the hum's amplitude, or loudness, did not vary over time.
  — National Geographic, 8 Dec. 2017
• The six letters make up words, and the words combine to form terms in each scattering amplitude.
  — Katie McCormick, Quanta Magazine, 1 Aug. 2022
• If the axions hit the swing with the right time delay, then the swing will start to swing at its natural frequency, and the amplitude will grow.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2018
• Lastly, judges are looking at amplitude in the halfpipe and off jumps.
  — Rachel Axon, USA TODAY, 5 Feb. 2022
• While frequency is how fast sound waves move, amplitude or volume is the strength of those sound waves.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 8 May 2024
• This constrained the amplitude of the sound waves that could be generated.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Mar. 2024
• In this case, the researchers relied on correlations between the amplitude of the light waves and their phase.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 2 July 2020
• For instance, the phase of one can affect the amplitude of its neighbor, which affects the phase of its next-nearest neighbor.
  — Natalie Wolchover, WIRED, 7 Apr. 2019
• The gusts gain frequency and amplitude, twanging the trees, hitting 70 miles per hour.
  — Nick Heil, Outside Online, 25 June 2013
• And even more familiar is the idea that the volume or amplitude of sound can damage our hearing by injuring the cells and membranes of the cochlea in the ear.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 8 May 2024
• And there are lots of these different waves with all the different amplitudes.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 14 June 2023
• The loudness, or amplitude, of a sound is determined by the maximum pressure of a wave.
  — Timothy Hsu, The Conversation, 24 Nov. 2021
• Each whole number increase — from, say, 3 to 4, or 6 to 7 — is a tenfold increase in amplitude.
  — Madalyn Amato, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2021
• Much of the amplitude in his dances radiates from a powerful back.
  — New York Times, 27 Jan. 2022
• The distance between crests is called the wavelength, and the amplitude of a wave—its strength, effectively—is the difference in height between the trough and a crest.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 5 July 2024
• The looming question is whether this is the start of what would be the fifth national wave of infections since the start of the pandemic - and if so, what the amplitude of that wave might be.
  — Carolyn Y. Johnson, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Nov. 2021
• The looming question is whether this is the start of what would be the fifth national wave of infections since the start of the pandemic -- and if so, what the amplitude of that wave might be.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 11 Nov. 2021
• But the primary product of the snapping claw is a high-amplitude pressure wave that can cause damage to soft tissues such as those of the brain.
  — Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 14 July 2022
• Monroe fully understood that presidents are granted far greater amplitude to exercise power in foreign affairs than in the domestic realm.
  — Sara Georgini, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024