Dictionary Definition

amplify

1 increase in size, volume or significance; "Her terror was magnified in her mind" [syn: magnify]

2 to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery" [syn: overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyerbolise, magnify] [ant: understate]

3 exaggerate or make bigger; "The charges were inflated" [syn: inflate, blow up, expand]

4 increase the volume of; "amplify sound" [also: amplified]

User Contributed Dictionary

IPA: WEAE /ˈæmp.lɪ.faɪ/

To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like;—used especially of loudspeakers, telescopes, microscopes, etc.
In the context of "transitive|rhetorical": To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand; to make much of.
To increase the amplitude of something, especially of an electric current.

to render larger etc.

to enlarge rhetorically

to increase amplitude

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 may refer to:

amplify in German: Amplifikation

amplify in French: Amplification

amplify in Dutch: Amplificatie

amplify in Polish: Amplifikacja

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