slew rate

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

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Words nearby slew rate

sleuth, sleuthhound, S level, slew, slewed, slew rate, sley, Slezsko, SLIC, slice, slice bar

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This made Jahweh so angry that he smote the people, and slew more than fifty thousand of them.
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