Definitions for amplification

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amplification am·pli·fi·ca·tion

Spelling: [am-pluh-fi-key-shuh n]

IPA: /ˌæm plə fɪˈkeɪ ʃən/

Amplification is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 22 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 27 points.

You can make 1011 anagrams from letters in amplification (aacfiiilmnopt).

Definitions for amplification

noun

1. the act of amplifying or the state of being amplified.
2. expansion of a statement, narrative, etc., as for rhetorical purposes:
3. a statement, narrative, etc., so expanded:
4. the matter or substance used to expand an idea, statement, or the like:
5. Electricity. increase in the strength of current, voltage, or power.
6. Genetics. gene amplification.
7. an increase in the frequency of replication of a DNA segment.
8. such an increase induced by a polymerase chain reaction.

Origin of amplification

First recorded in 1540-50, amplification is from the Latin word amplificātiōn- (stem of amplificātiō). See ample, -i-,

Examples for amplification

The whole passage is an amplification and description of the "word" of ver.

We must strike some sort of balance between my brevity and your amplification.

"Because of the limit of amplification in the tubes," Arcot replied.

The death of the martyrs was at that time an amplification of rhetoric.

But my comedy onstage is just an amplification of what people do to each other.

Deprived of amplification, he silently stripped down and collapsed onstage.

The book, then, is an amplification of the Bible book of "Daniel."

Only it should have been written there, in amplification, that there is a limit.

Of this, my present memoir is little more than an amplification.

It is weak in amplification of examples during an age when amplification was practiced.