amplification
IPA: æmpɫʌfʌkˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- The act, or result of amplifying, enlarging, extending or adding.
- (physics) The act, or result of independently increasing some quantity, especially voltage, power or current.
- (electronics) Gain.
- (genetics) The using of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for isolating and exponentially amplifying a fragment or sequence of DNA.
- (organic chemistry) 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).
- (translation studies) 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.
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Examples of "amplification" in Sentences
- Some of the amplification is from me anyway.
- That's the default without the amplification.
- The preamble menitons the amplification of sound waves.
- Improvement and amplification of the text would be nice.
- Both the life and the work could use some amplification.
- He provided an example of the amplification of management capability.
- The amplifiers shown in the video are owned by Marshall Amplification.
- The direction of amplification is varied by the hearing aid processor.
- Usually the amplification factor decreases as the input level increases.
- The article needs a figure to illustrate the strands and the amplifications.
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