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amplify

  • verb
  • am·pli·fy
  • /ˈæm.plə.faɪ/

To render larger, more extended, or more intense.

Other meanings

  1. To enlarge by addition or commenting; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand.

  2. To increase the amplitude of something, especially of an electric current.

Related words

  • nonamplifying
  • amplicant
  • amplifiability
  • amplitron
  • autoamplify
  • bioamplify
  • deamplify
  • overamplify
  • preamplify
  • reamplify
  • underamplify
  • coamplify

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This definition is adapted from “amplify” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.