slew rate

noun

1. electronics the rate at which an electronic amplifier can respond to an abrupt change of input level

Example Sentences

Mathias Davids, then a physics graduate student at Heidelberg University in Mannheim, Germany, and a member of Feinberg's team, collaborated with Dietz in performing physiologic modeling to allow a faster gradient slew rate -- a measure of how quickly the magnetic field changes across the brain -- while remaining under the neuronal stimulation thresholds of the human body.

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