amplification
The act, or result of amplifying, enlarging, extending or adding.
Other meanings
The act, or result of independently increasing some quantity, especially voltage, power or current.
The using of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for isolating and exponentially amplifying a fragment or sequence of DNA.
Related words
- amplificational
- amplimer
- microamplification
- underamplification
- overamplification
- preamplification
- reamplification
- Raman amplification
- nonamplification
- postamplification
- autoamplification
- chirped-pulse amplification
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “amplification” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.