How to Use impedance in a Sentence
impedance
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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
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Most earbuds or headphones with an impedance of 16Ω will work fine with the Rhodium.
—Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 10 July 2022
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This allowed the researchers to trigger the switches at will, doubling impedance along the strip.
—Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 15 Mar. 2023
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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
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The audio jack supports high-impedance headphones, which is nice.
—Ewan Spence, Forbes, 10 June 2022
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That impedance is measured and calculated to provide the user with a wide range of body data.
—Allen Foster, chicagotribune.com, 19 Dec. 2020
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The low impedance of the capacitor minimizes any remaining ripple voltage on the battery side.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Jan. 2023
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An especially helpful feature is the Klein meter's LoZ, or low impedance, setting.
—Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 8 Jan. 2016
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Based on fluid levels in the body and hydration status, body water weight is captured by bioelectrical impedance.
—Caroline Thomason, Health, 14 June 2023
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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
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This detects your total bone weight based on bioelectrical impedance.
—Caroline Thomason, Health, 14 June 2023
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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
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The amplifier has sufficient power to drive a variety of high-impedance headphones with a 2Vrms output level.
—Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
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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
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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
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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
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Comparing these readings with imaging, soil moisture, and leaf relative water content backed up the impedance measurements.
—IEEE Spectrum, 11 Dec. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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