| After the building was damped down yesterday, structural experts deemed it unsound and ordered its demolition. |
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| The most common varieties are even vibration and damped vibration, according as the amplitude remains constant or it is decreasing exponentially. |
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| When an open note is followed by a fretted note on the same string, it is damped when the fretted note is formed. |
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| The Part 572 Subpart L free motion headform was instrumented with a critically damped Entran triaxial accelerometer. |
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| Most transient signals, which are exponentially damped sinusoids, cannot be wavelet basis functions because of their nonzero mean. |
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| He applied sinusoidal compressions to the top of the I, and recorded how the structure damped the vibrations. |
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| If the oscillations are not damped out, they could break the fragile lines of other suspended weights and become amplified. |
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| Over the eons the lunar spin rate has been damped by Earth's gravity, because the Moon's mass distribution is not uniform. |
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| Adding real-time modal analysis could potentially enhance this process, as disturbances are oscillatory and could be negatively damped. |
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| Each brush element is damped by a rubber buffer to prevent excessive oscillation. |
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| The existence of damped oscillations in the isotonic transient response of single muscle fibers therefore argues in favor of the oscillating regime. |
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| If the resistance of the connected processing system is less than 230 Ohm, the digital adjustment signal is extremely damped or short-circuited. |
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| Following initiation of the seiche, the water sloshes back and forth until the oscillation is damped out by friction. |
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| For the maintenance of natural materials and terracotta, clean the surface with clear water damped floorcloth or soft sponge. |
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| The violin ostinato and the solo oboe line create the veiled, damped sonority, as well as the effect of clair-obscur. |
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| Equivalent rheological model whereby rate-and-state frictional instability is damped by viscous dashpot. |
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| In most cases, nutation is quickly damped by friction in the bearings, leaving uniform precession. |
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| The commodity's price was slipping and as a firmer dollar damped the investment appeal of commodities. |
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| Rear wobble is heavily damped and falls off quickly as bike speed increases. |
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| Isopods and amphipods spend low tide buried in wrack, where variation in temperature and humidity is strongly damped relative to the exposed intertidal surface. |
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| Because of its slow relaxation, power strokes of the enzyme were expected to appear strongly damped in recordings of the angular velocity of the filament. |
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| This voltage reflects back along the transmission line to the source, where if not fully damped may reflect again to the receiver, and may repeat until effectively damped. |
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| The signal of measured dynamics can be reconstructed by a variety of fitting procedures, sum of exponents, polynomes, damped sinusoid function, etc. |
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| When they were dry they were damped and rolled for the dampness to spread evenly before they were ironed with an iron heated and reheated on the stove. |
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| This probably damped the housing market last year, and is likely to continue to do so for a few years yet. |
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| But it was hurriedly damped down by ministers when the Welsh voted for an assembly by the narrowest of margins. |
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| They have won credibility, anchoring inflation expectations so that movements in actual inflation are damped. |
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| Relay alarm functions based on input functions of flow, load and speed, respond to the damped value. |
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| The damped letter flap, for instance, never rattles and remains firmly closed even in the strongest winds. |
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| Side push buttons and an integrated damped hinge mechanism, enable the compact to be opened smoothly. |
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| Through the high storage capacity of new catalysts for oxygen, the change of the oxygen content after the catalyst is almost completely damped. |
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| For axis 1 and axis 2 only, a movable damped mechanical stop option is available. |
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| Once they reach a favourable environment such as a damped bread, the spores will developp and create a mycelium which is the part we see on the bread when it gets moldy. |
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| As the oil starts to emulsify and clean-up efforts begin to take effect, the capillary waves are not as effectively damped and the oil appears lighter. |
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| Until recently foreign involvement was restricted, which has damped foreign investment, and therefore the import of technology, and business know-how. |
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| Achroplat does so by using bubbles. Just as in a quality sponge bed mattress, which both supports and damps, as the thin bubble walls flex in Achroplat, it is easy for the energy to be damped out. |
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| President Raúl Castro damped down speculation that he would abolish restrictions on foreign travel by Cubans. At least 38 Haitian migrants died when their overcrowded boat sank off the Cuban coast. |
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| This has damped demand for the Yen as a safe-haven. |
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| The compensator, which is located between the focusing lens and the crosshair reticle, is pneumatically damped against mechanical vibration and is screened against magnetic fields. |
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| If a chain drives only devices with a low mass moment of inertia and a largely constant moment support, it is possible under certain circumstances to dispense with the use of damped tensioning elements. |
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| As wingsweep increases, the dihedral effect increases, and if the airplane is not adequately damped in the directional axis, a Dutch roll might occur if the airplane is upset directionally. |
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| A new, physically motivated, continuous microslip model of friction is developed for analyzing the dynamic response of frictionally damped structures in which the friction interface is subjected to high normal loads. |
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| Atmospheric waves transport either westward or eastward angular momentum depending on their nature, and transfer it to the equatorial jets when they are damped. |
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| This new functionality is ideal for diagnosing damped resonances, particularly in open systems or for systems that contain foam and fiber noise control treatments. |
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| Heavily damped oscillators tend to have broad linewidths, and respond to a wider range of driving frequencies around the resonant frequency. |
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| The motion is normally well damped in most light aircraft, though some aircraft with well-damped Dutch roll modes can experience a degradation of damping as airspeed and altitude increase. |
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| The solid base with ball-bearing guidings, spindle and power input damped by springs enables quick movements for short change-over times as well as a soft pressure build-up. |
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| Slowing investment and a shift from a positive to a negative wealth effect on consumption have significantly damped the growth in aggregate final demand since late last year. |
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| If, on the other hand, you would like a low sink rate for weak thermals and a more damped response to manouevring you should choose the size where you will be in the lower half of the weight range. |
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| And their texts all too often seem damped down by the demands of officialese. |
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| Such hypervigilance is part of the normal fear and flight response which is damped down by benzodiazepines but undergoes a rebound during withdrawal. |
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| There are many alternate quantities used by physicists and engineers to describe how damped an oscillator is that are closely related to its quality factor. |
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| We study complex damped and undamped dynamics and targeted energy transfers in systems of coupled oscillators, consisting of single-degree-of-freedom pri. |
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