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damping
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Damp \Damp\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Damped; p. pr. & vb. n. Damping.] [OE. dampen to choke, suffocate. See Damp, n.]
To render damp; to moisten; to make humid, or moderately wet; to dampen; as, to damp cloth.
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To put out, as fire; to depress or deject; to deaden; to cloud; to check or restrain, as action or vigor; to make dull; to weaken; to discourage. ``To damp your tender hopes.''
--Akenside.Usury dulls and damps all industries, improvements, and new inventions, wherein money would be stirring if it were not for this slug.
--Bacon.How many a day has been damped and darkened by an angry word!
--Sir J. Lubbock.The failure of his enterprise damped the spirit of the soldiers.
--Macaulay.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The reduction in the magnitude of oscillations by the dissipation of energy 2 The stabilization of a physical system by reducing oscillation vb. (present participle of damp English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Damping is an influence within or upon an oscillatory system that has the effect of reducing, restricting or preventing its oscillations. In physical systems, damping is produced by processes that dissipate the energy stored in the oscillation. Examples include viscous drag in mechanical systems, resistance in electronic oscillators, and absorption and scattering of light in optical oscillators. Damping not based on energy loss can be important in other oscillating systems such as those that occur in biological systems.
The damping of a system can be described as being one of the following:
Overdamped: The system returns ( exponentially decays) to equilibrium without oscillating.Critically damped: The system returns to equilibrium as quickly as possible without oscillating.
Underdamped: The system oscillates (at reduced frequency compared to the undamped case) with the amplitude gradually decreasing to zero.
Undamped: The system oscillates at its natural resonant frequency (ω) without experiencing decay of its amplitude.
For example, consider a door that uses a spring to close the door once open. This can lead to any of the above types of damping depending on the strength of the damping. If the door is undamped it will swing back and forth forever at a particular resonant frequency. If it is underdamped it will swing back and forth with decreasing size of the swing until it comes to a stop. If it is critically damped then it will return to closed as quickly as possible without oscillating. Finally, if it is overdamped it will return to closed without oscillating but more slowly depending on how overdamped it is. Different levels of damping are desired for different types of systems.
Damping is a technique in music for altering the sound of a musical instrument. Damping methods are used for a number of instruments.
Usage examples of "damping".
The cerebrospinal fluid acts as a cushion in all these cases, damping the relative motions of brain and skull.
Designed for fighting the Posleen, it had improved frontal armor and thermal damping to make it more survivable when hit by hypervelocity missiles and plasma cannons.
The rains are gray solid sheets of water, slamming into the mock-Spanish house with sudden sideways ferocity and soaking everything, slashing through the window louvers and damping beds and curtains until everything seems heavy and turning-green with moisture.
Carl Sagan had been a conventional antimilitary liberal, and so assumed that a radio message from space would shock humanity, damping down wars and ushering in a cosmic sense of cooperation between nations.
To carry the analogy with atomic fission further, a block away a column of helmeted city police was marching in, a damping rod about to be thrust into an overheating pile.
The building might be equipped with damping devices, like the thinking-caps the can-toi wore, that would make it impossible.
But suddenly, in a remarkable move, Boba Fett acti-vated his inertial damping system, slamming his de-scent to a halt in the atmosphere of Tatooine.
She squinted at the top of the flimsy, peering to make out a code sequence that Nancia could read perfectly well with the vision correctors damping down movement and enhancing blurred letters.
There was a flash that momentarily overloaded the sensors' damping capacity, and the hostile armor collapsed in a fuming heap.
Keep the seedlings in their seed-boxes, freely ventilated to prevent damping off, and in April remove them to a sheltered shady border.
Together they went through the hull system, the structural integrity field system, and the inertial damping systems.
DUMP BOXES: the general term for any cargo container of irregular shape and equipped with ablation surfaces and suspensor damping system.
In private homes this could happen on trays placed on the rafters below the roof, but this frequent damping of the rafters wasn't good for the wood.
Doubtless Radigast's virtual visitors could see, in the background, his damping field projectors going full force, fending off a hell of heat and radioactivity threatening to push down one of the corridors leading to the bridge, coming from a spot where one of the dreadnought's main structural members was being slowly consumed in an induced reaction.
These new elements included the damping factors that had been missing from his equations for years--brain fever, orbital persuasion devices, as well as the long-hidden history of terraformers and archives that he had learned about in the Thumartin Nebula.