Both Uses of
amplitude
in
Jane Eyre
- Some of them were very tall; many were dressed in white; and all had a sweeping amplitude of array that seemed to magnify their persons as a mist magnifies the moon.†
p. 199.1 *amplitude = greatness of magnitude or range
- Miss Ingram, who had now seated herself with proud grace at the piano, spreading out her snowy robes in queenly amplitude, commenced a brilliant prelude; talking meantime.†
p. 207.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(amplitude) greatness of magnitude or range -- especially the height of a waveMore technically, the amplitude of a wave is the maximum distance from the mean.
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus