Several years later, by the time the policy change is finally passed by parliament, it is almost a damp squib: accepted quietly, as if every protester's vocal cords have long been exhausted.
The much longer time constant of the latter variable would almost completely damp its response to the brief stimulus.
Robert Mellman, senior economist at J. P. Morgan Chase Bank, said the war had almost certainly damped consumer spending at a time when consumer spending has been the only source of economic growth in this country.
The ECDs are contactless dampers which show an almost viscous damping behavior without increasing the stiffness of a system.
The phase angel in term of natural frequency and excitation frequency and almost the damping ratio is obtained from: φ = tan - 1 2 ξ ω ¯ / ω ¯ n 1 - ω ¯ / ω ¯ n 2 (11).
The application of these dampers are widely found in aircraft gas turbine engines that are usually mounted on rolling element bearings, which are known to provide almost negligible damping to the system.
The phenomenon is characterised by increasing fatigue loads compared to the fore-aft fatigue and a small amount of system damping since almost no aerodynamic damping from the blades takes place.
As the door opens, you can almost smell the damp and furniture polish.
(Leave it to Slater to muse on "the undercrust," his word for "that damp, almost magical place where crumble meets fruit").
