Dictionary Definition
amplification
Noun
1 addition of extra material or illustration or
clarifying detail; "a few remarks added in amplification and
defense"; "an elaboration of the idea followed" [syn: elaboration]
2 the amount of increase in signal power or
voltage or current expressed as the ratio of output to input [syn:
gain]
3 (electronics) the act of increasing voltage or
power or current
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪʃǝn
Noun
- the act, or result of amplifying, enlarging, extending or adding to
- the act, or result of independently increasing some quantity, especially voltage, power or current
- gain
- using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for isolating and exponentially amplifying a fragment or sequence of DNA
- A procedure used in the nomenclature of complex organic compounds in which the superatoms of a basic structure (a phane) are replaced by cyclic structures (amplificants)
Translations
result of amplifying
- Croatian: amplifikacija, pojačanje
in physics
- Croatian: amplifikacija
in electronics
- Croatian: amplifikacija
Extensive Definition
Amplification may refer to:
- The operation of an amplifier, a natural or artificial device intended to make a signal stronger.
- Amplification (rhetoric), a figure of speech that adds importance to increase its rhetorical effect.
- Amplification (psychology) in which physical symptoms are affected by psychological state.
- Amplification (molecular biology), a mechanism leading to multiple copies of a chromosomal region within a chromosome arm.
- The DNA amplification technique of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in molecular biology, a laboratory method for creating multiple copies of small segments of DNA.
- Amplified (Q-Tip album), an album by Q-Tip
- Amplified (Mock Orange album), an album by Mock Orange
- Amplified - A Decade of Reinventing the Cello, an album by Apocalyptica
- Amplified (band), a Hong Kong rock band popular in Japan.
amplification in German: Amplifikation
amplification in French: Amplification
amplification in Dutch: Amplificatie
amplification in Polish:
Amplifikacja
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
access,
accession, accomplishment, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, addition, adjunct, advance, advancement, aggrandizement, aggravation, ampliation, annoyance, appreciation, ascent, augmentation, ballooning, ballyhoo, big talk, bilingual
text, bloating,
blossoming, blowing
up, boom, boost, broadening, buildup, burlesque, caricature, clavis, contentiousness,
crescendo, crib, decipherment, decoding, deepening, deliberate
aggravation, deployment, deterioration, development, developmental
change, dilatation,
dilation, dispersion, edema, elaboration, elevation, embittering, embitterment, enhancement, enlargement, evolution, evolutionary
change, evolvement,
evolving, exacerbation, exaggerating, exaggeration, exasperation, excess, exorbitance, expansion, expatiation, explication, extension, extravagance, extreme, faithful translation,
fanning out, flare,
flood, flowering, free translation,
furtherance,
gain, gloss, glossary, gradual change,
grandiloquence,
greatening, growth, gush, heightening, hike, hiking, huckstering, hyperbole, hyperbolism, increase, increment, inflation, inordinacy, intensification,
interlinear,
interlinear translation, irritation, jump, key, leap, loose translation, magnification, maturation, metaphrase, mounting, multiplication, natural
development, natural growth, nonviolent change, overemphasis, overestimation, overkill, overstatement, paraphrase, pony, prodigality, productiveness, profuseness, progress, progression, proliferation, provocation, puffery, puffing up, raise, raising, restatement, rewording, ripening, rise, sensationalism, sharpening, snowballing, souring, splay, spread, spreading, stretching, superlative, surge, swelling, tall talk, touting, transcription, translation, transliteration,
travesty, trot, tumescence, unfolding, up, upping, upsurge, upswing, uptrend, upturn, waxing, widening, working-out, worsening