Thesaurus results for AMPLITUDES

amplitudes

noun

plural of amplitude

as in scopes

an area over which activity, capacity, or influence extends the amplitude of Thomas Jefferson's interests—government, architecture, agriculture, science, philosophy—is truly awesome

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Recent Examples of amplitudes Their clean collisions would allow more precise measurements of scattering amplitudes, making the FCC ultrasensitive to indirect signs of new physics. —

Quanta Magazine, 26 Jan. 2026 Second, the large amplitudes of the gravitational waves needed to generate the events that Weber was claiming a detection of would provide more energy than could possibly cosmically exist in any-and-all forms of radiation combined; the Universe as a whole ruled his interpretation out. —

Big Think, 7 Nov. 2025 The team first runs dynamic laboratory tests on generic soil samples to build reliable models, applying waves at different strain rates and amplitudes and comparing experimental results with simulations. —

Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025 Smoke from primary wildfires along with weather create conditions for lightning, creating a continuous current with durations ranging from tens to hundreds of milliseconds and amplitudes from several tens to a few hundreds of amperes. —

Sabbir Rangwala, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025 And that function involves two complex numbers, α and β (called quantum amplitudes), which, being complex numbers, have real parts and imaginary parts. —

IEEE Spectrum, 15 Nov. 2018

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Smart pills could provide doctors with new ways to access that information without putting patients through traditional scopes and sedation.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 7 Mar. 2026
The footage inside the silicone throat was shot weeks prior; when the camera cuts to Howard, production used scopes of different lengths to indicate how far the tube may have gone down his throat.

— Marah Eakin, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2026