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damped

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for damped.

Editorial note

Seems something like a piano is a lot easier to simulate with a few damped sine waves?

Examples14
Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

(of an extinguished fire) stopped from smouldering and reigniting by the application of water

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of damped gathered in one view.

adjective

(of an extinguished fire) stopped from smouldering and reigniting by the application of water

adjective

(physics, of a linear dynamic system) Possessing a nonzero damping ratio.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for damped.

adjective

(of an extinguished fire) stopped from smouldering and reigniting by the application of water

adjective

(physics, of a linear dynamic system) Possessing a nonzero damping ratio.

Example sentences

1

Seems something like a piano is a lot easier to simulate with a few damped sine waves?

2

There it quickly dissipates because voice is quickly damped but here it is just noise that takes time to be damped out.

3

It seems like the implicit target in the document is to achieve a critically damped system with no ringdown on learning.

4

With the recording all the backlash from the psych is damped down when I let people know what actually happened.

5

Because the feather is not a perfect elastic medium, the effect you see is a damped harmonic oscillator, but it takes non-zero finite time to dampen sufficiently.

6

Under damped voting systems can oscillate out of control to self destruction just as effectively as circuits can.

7

Of course, due to regulation and human nature, it's a damped system - not all jobs will be eliminated.

8

Each time this happens, growth is damped as buyers and sellers shuffle over to new operators.

9

Current Situation: --- The arm that damped the landing force only moved very little, which indicates a very soft surface.

10

Edit: that being said, it looks like in the heavily damped case it takes much less than the full duration to finish.

11

The sigmoid itself contains an exponent that is damped at higher values.

12

One particularly effective way to get natural eased motion is to use a function that outputs something like the movement of a simple damped harmonic spring.

Quote examples

1

NET, damped my hopes already: "This affects nothing for Paint.

2

Over damped throttles, layers upon layers of "safety" computer systems, auto gearboxes to cheat the emissions tests, wide tyres and a lack of feel and fun.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use damped in a sentence?

Seems something like a piano is a lot easier to simulate with a few damped sine waves?

What does damped mean?

(of an extinguished fire) stopped from smouldering and reigniting by the application of water

What part of speech is damped?

damped is commonly used as adjective.