How to Use impedance in a Sentence

impedance

noun

• When these switches in the new device are triggered at the same time, the impedance of the strip doubles in about 3 nanoseconds.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Mar. 2023
• Most earbuds or headphones with an impedance of 16Ω will work fine with the Rhodium.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 10 July 2022
• This allowed the researchers to trigger the switches at will, doubling impedance along the strip.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 15 Mar. 2023
• There’s a button to enable 48-volt phantom power and what looks to be a switch for high-impedance headphones.
  — Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 8 Dec. 2018
• The audio jack supports high-impedance headphones, which is nice.
  — Ewan Spence, Forbes, 10 June 2022
• That impedance is measured and calculated to provide the user with a wide range of body data.
  — Allen Foster, chicagotribune.com, 19 Dec. 2020
• Around the back of the unit are a single pair of speaker binding posts and the Cyrus One Cast automatically adjusts its output to the speakers’ impedance.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
• Special care has been taken to marry a low-density nitrile surround to the cone, to match its impedance and reduce reflections from the cone edge.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
• The diaphragm is an ultra-thin, featherweight film, coated with a conductor array whose impedance, at about 80 Ohms, makes the Solitaire P easy to drive.
  — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 13 Dec. 2022
• That enabled Smith and his cohorts to record the vocal tract impedance in different configurations in the mouth.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 29 Dec. 2023
• Its thick front panel features three headphone outputs—6.3 mm, 4.4 mm and four-pin XLR—and offers adjustable impedance matching for fine-tuning.
  — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 13 Dec. 2022
• This new bandage is made up of wireless circuits that use temperature and impedance sensors to monitor how the wound is healing.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 3 Jan. 2023
• Low-impedance speakers put more stress on speaker wire, and not all speaker wire is intended for in-wall installations (though it should be clearly labeled either way).
  — Don Melanson, Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2018
• Adding a better headphone jack that works with high impedance headphones means that music producers can plug in more power-hungry models without adding a headphone amp.
  — Parker Hall, Wired, 18 Oct. 2021
• Rolls-Royce claims torsional stiffness has increased and that the lower acoustic impedance of aluminum has helped to improve cabin refinement.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 1 Sep. 2020
• The low impedance of the capacitor minimizes any remaining ripple voltage on the battery side.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Jan. 2023
• An especially helpful feature is the Klein meter's LoZ, or low impedance, setting.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 8 Jan. 2016
• Based on fluid levels in the body and hydration status, body water weight is captured by bioelectrical impedance.
  — Caroline Thomason, Health, 14 June 2023
• Giles stated the impedance, or type of electrical resistance for alternating currents (what supplies power to household outlets), could be changed if a wire is bent many times.
  — Miriam Fauzia, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2021
• This detects your total bone weight based on bioelectrical impedance.
  — Caroline Thomason, Health, 14 June 2023
• Whenever Giulianotti wanted to cut something, the robot first measured the tissue’s impedance—or resistance to an electrical current—and, thus, the extent to which blood had been stanched.
  — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2019
• The amplifier has sufficient power to drive a variety of high-impedance headphones with a 2Vrms output level.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
• The diaper could use these elements to measure the conductivity and impedance between various areas of the diaper that are in the potential blast zone.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 17 May 2018
• The low-impedance electrodes are six to 10 square millimeters in area and deliver up to 10 milliamperes of electric current between adjacent electrodes—enough to modulate the excitability of a million or more nerve cells.
  — Christof Koch, Scientific American, 10 May 2021
• The end result is a simple and effective product where there’s no risk of damaging the amp, no blanketed or muffled sound from an extra effect laying on top of the tone, and no front-end impedance or variation that often comes with guitar pedals.
  — Josh Chesler, SPIN, 18 Jan. 2023
• Comparing these readings with imaging, soil moisture, and leaf relative water content backed up the impedance measurements.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Dec. 2023
• So by applying a current to a plant and measuring the resulting voltage, and then calculating the impedance (voltage divided by current), researchers can assess whether a plant has a healthy level of hydration.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Dec. 2023
• The AK HC2 has an analog amplifier powerful enough to drive high-impedance headphones and the option of a 4.4mm balanced output offers lower noise, higher output and clearer channel separation.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 13 May 2022
• However, devices won’t be able to receive power at that distance—impedance issues would make sending up to 10W impractical, Intel spokesperson Dave Salvatore said.
  — Ars Technica, WIRED, 12 Mar. 2012
• The scale tracks this information using bioelectrical impedance technology, which basically sends a low electrical current through your body, then measuring the resistance of tissue in the body to the current.
  — Maren Estrada, BGR, 27 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024