Thesaurus results for AMPLITUDE

amplitude

noun

ˈam-plə-ˌtüd

as in scope

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 amplitude But there’s an uncertainty of around 20% on each of those figures (and, correspondingly, for the redshift as well), as a lower-mass merger that was closer or a higher-mass merger that was more distant would produce a signal with roughly the same amplitude. —

Big Think, 3 Apr. 2026 Other researchers soon realized that his formula, now known as the Veneziano amplitude, implied that hadrons aren’t particles, but vibrating strings. —

Quanta Magazine, 23 Mar. 2026 Although the central story is intimate in scale, the film’s scope is large and its social purview deep, and this vast amplitude is a function of Ouédraogo’s way of staging action, or, rather, of envisioning it. —

Richard Brody, New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2026 Riders flow through rails and jumps, linking tricks that get judged on difficulty, execution, amplitude and style. —

Jenny Catlin, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for amplitude

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This will cost $15 million to $22 million, depending on the full scope of expansion.

— Allen Best, Denver Post, 14 June 2026
Others have expressed concern over patient privacy, as well as the need for human judgment that takes into account the scope of a patient’s health history, rather than a single dataset.

— Teresa Mull, FOXNews.com, 13 June 2026