Meaning

6 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The act, or result of amplifying, enlarging, extending or adding.

    Verstärkung, Vergrößerung

    увеличе́ниеuveličénije, подъёмpodʺjóm, приро́стpriróst

  2. (countable, uncountable)The act, or result of independently increasing some quantity, especially voltage, power or current.

    (electronics) the act of increasing voltage or power or current

  3. (countable, uncountable)Gain.

    Verstärkung, Verstärkung

    усиле́ниеusilénije, усиле́ниеusilénije

  4. (countable, uncountable)The using of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for isolating and exponentially amplifying a fragment or sequence of DNA.

  5. (countable, uncountable)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).

  6. (countable, uncountable)A translation technique that involves adding content that is not present in the source text to the target text, usually to improve the fluency of the translation.

Examples

2 sentences
  1. Workers are installing extra loudspeakers because the music in tonight's concert will need amplification.

    deArbeiter montieren zusätzliche Lautsprecher, weil die Musik beim Konzert heute Abend größere Lautstärke benötigt.

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  2. Social media leads to the amplification of once-fringe views, for better or worse.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
result of amplifying:
in physics:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
result of amplifying:

Origin

Learned borrowing from Latin amplificātiō.

Learned borrowing from Latin amplificātiō.

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