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Amplitude gate

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 17, 2023
Entity authorityQ4748516 ↗
Source-derived summary

An amplitude gate (also, slicer or slice amplifier) is a circuit whose output is only the part of the input signal that lies between two amplitude boundary level values.

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The public source identifies “Amplitude gate” as open-knowledge reference entry. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Amplitude, gate and Open-knowledge.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 29-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Amplitude, gate and Open-knowledge providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Amplitude gate” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.