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AMPLITUDE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Greatness of magnitude
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("amplitude" is a kind of...):
magnitude (the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "amplitude"):
signal level (the amplitude level of the desired signal)
background level; noise level (the amplitude level of the undesired background noise)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The property of copious abundance
Synonyms:
amplitude; bountifulness; bounty
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("amplitude" is a kind of...):
abundance; copiousness; teemingness (the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(physics) the maximum displacement of a periodic wave
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("amplitude" is a kind of...):
displacement; shift (an event in which something is displaced without rotation)
Domain category:
natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)
Context examples:
An electrocardiographic finding of P waves with two peaks longer in duration than normal and amplitude greater than normal.
(P Wave Notched by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Electrocardiographic criteria used for the diagnosis of right atrial abnormality may include a peaked p wave greater than 2.5 millimeters in amplitude in the inferior leads.
(P-pulmonale by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus)
A microscopic technique in which the amplitude shift that occurs when light passes through a specimen highlights structures or details within the specimen.
(Phase-Contrast Microscopy, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
An electrocardiographic finding for the P wave that is atypical either for the shape, duration, amplitude, axis or polarity.
(P Wave Abnormality by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus)
A combination of opsoclonus (involuntary conjugate eye movements of large amplitude) and myoclonic jerks.
(Opsoclonus Myoclonus Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)
A baseline fetal heart rate with a detectable amplitude range that is greater than 6 but less than or equal to 25 beats per minute.
(Moderate Baseline Fetal Heart Rate Variability, NCI Thesaurus)
An electronic device designed to vary the frequency, amplitude, or phase of an electromagnetic signal.
(Modulator Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)
Involuntary shock-like contractions, irregular in rhythm and amplitude, followed by relaxation, of a muscle or a group of muscles.
(Myoclonic jerk, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
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.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
An electronic device designed to prevent the amplitude of a wave from exceeding a set limit.
(Limiter Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)
