amplitude

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The circuit's amplitude adjustment response is not instantaneous.

The purpose isn't to add information, but to use shifting frequencies and amplitudes to penetrate possible shielding by the enemy.†  (source) Cixin Liu, The Three-Body Problem, 2008

He regarded the delicate lines of her profile, and the small, tight, applelike convexities of her bodice, so different from Arabella's amplitudes.†  (source) Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, 1895

The court, he wrote, "was practically blameless; the aesthetic sense of the beholder was as fully and unreservedly satisfied as in looking at a masterpiece of painting or sculpture, and at the same time was soothed and elevated by a sense of amplitude and grandeur such as no single work of art could produce."†  (source) Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City, 2003

The measure'd faiths of other lands, the grandeurs of the past, Are not for thee, but grandeurs of thine own, Deific faiths and amplitudes, absorbing, comprehending all, All eligible to all.†  (source) Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855

His visits soon began to acquire an awkward familial amplitude, for Dr. Urbino Daza and his wife would sometimes appear as if by accident, and they would stay to play cards.†  (source) Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera, 1988

"Sonny," said she, with an incredible amplitude of faith and good cheer, "dey is only one Good Book.†  (source) William Styron, Sophie's Choice, 1976

As we rolled in urine and vomit, in that hideous, stinking baptism, we rolled together as a class for the first time, as though controlled by a single, invincible will, and on that night, they could not hurt us, could not touch us, could not even approach us in the ecstasy and amplitude of our solidarity.†  (source) Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline, 1980

For all their physical amplitude, the fat old man and the fatter man in middle-age, Will Hodge Sr and Will Hodge Jr, were diminished by the old-style sobriety of the room.†  (source) John Gardner, The Sunlight Dialogues, 1972

There was width to the eye, a smoking sun-hazed amplitude, the world convoluting and opening into the world, hill and plain, into the west.†  (source) Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, 1929

It proves the ease and amplitude of those days that a man to whom money was an obsession thought it feasible to take a house on the very toenail, as he called it, of England, so that every summer he would be faced with the expense of moving children, nurses, servants from one end of England to the other.†  (source) Virginia Woolf, A Sketch of the Past, 1939

But the doorstep, as she drew near it, acquired a sudden interest from the fact that it was occupied—and indeed filled—by the conspicuous figure of Mr. Rosedale, whose presence seemed to take on an added amplitude from the meanness of his surroundings.†  (source) Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, 1905

It was a face that told of an amplitude of nature and of quick and free motions and, though it had no regular beauty, was in the highest degree engaging and attaching.†  (source) Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2, 1881