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amplitude
1540s, from L.
amplitudinem
(nom.
amplitudo,
gen.
amplitudinis
) "wide extent, width," from
amplus
(see
ample
).
Amplitude modulation
in ref. to radio wave broadcast (as opposed to
frequency modulation
) first attested 1921, usually abbreviated
a.m.
