amplify
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Etymology [edit]
From Middle English amplifyen, from Old French amplifier, from Latin amplificare (“to enlarge”), from amplus (“large”) + facere (“to make”). See ample.
Pronunciation [edit]
Verb [edit]
amplify (third-person singular simple present amplifies, present participle amplifying, simple past and past participle amplified)
- (transitive) To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like;—used especially of loudspeakers, telescopes, microscopes, etc.
- (transitive, rhetorical) To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand; to make much of.
- (transitive) To increase the amplitude of something, especially of an electric current.
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Translations [edit]
to render larger etc.
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to enlarge rhetorically
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to increase amplitude
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External links [edit]
- amplify in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- amplify in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
