amplification

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₃emh₃-der.

Proto-Indo-European *h₃emh₃-lo-s

Proto-Italic *amlos?

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts?

Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰíder.

Proto-Italic *amβi-

Latin ambi-

Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós

Proto-Italic *plēnos

Latin plēnus?

Latin ambiplus?

Latin amplus

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.

Proto-Italic *θakos

Proto-Italic *-fakos

Latin -ficus

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin -ficō

Latin amplificō

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin amplificātiōlbor.

English amplification

Learned borrowing from Latin amplificātiō.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌæmplɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

amplification (countable and uncountable, plural amplifications)

1. The act, or result of amplifying, enlarging, extending or adding.
2. (physics) The act, or result of independently increasing some quantity, especially voltage, power or current.
3. (electronics) Gain.
4. (genetics) The using of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for isolating and exponentially amplifying a fragment or sequence of DNA.
5. (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).
6. (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.

Derived terms

• amplificational
• amplimer
• autoamplification
• bioamplification
• chirped-pulse amplification
• coamplification
• microamplification
• misamplification
• nonamplification
• overamplification
• postamplification
• preamplification
• Raman amplification
• reamplification
• somatosensory amplification
• underamplification

Related terms

• ample
• amplifiable
• amplificatory
• amplifier
• amplify
• amplitude

Translations

result of amplifying

• Bulgarian: увеличаване (bg) (uveličavane), уголемяване (bg) (ugolemjavane)
• Catalan: amplificació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: forstærkning c
• Dutch: versterking (nl) f (intensity), vergroting (nl) f (enlarging)
• Finnish: vahvistuminen (fi)
• Galician: amplificación (gl) f
• German: Verstärkung (de) f (intensity); Vergrößerung (de) f (enlarging)
• Indonesian: amplifikasi (id)
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: amplifikacja f, nasilenie (pl) n, wzmocnienie (pl) n
• Portuguese: amplificação (pt) f
• Romanian: amplificare (ro) f
• Russian: увеличе́ние (ru) n (uveličénije), подъём (ru) m (podʺjóm), приро́ст (ru) m (priróst), расшире́ние (ru) n (rasširénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: амплифика́ција f, појача́ње n

  Latin: amplifikácija (sh) f, pojačánje (sh) n

• Spanish: amplificación (es) f
• Tagalog: amplipikasyon, pag-aamplipika
• Thai: please add this translation if you can

in physics

• Bulgarian: усилване (bg) (usilvane)
• Catalan: amplificació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: forstærkning c
• Dutch: versterking (nl) f
• Finnish: vahvistaminen (fi) (act), vahvistuminen (fi) (result)
• Galician: amplificación (gl) f
• German: Verstärkung (de) f
• Irish: aimpliú m, aimpliúchán m
• Portuguese: amplificação (pt) f
• Romanian: amplificare (ro) f
• Russian: усиле́ние (ru) n (usilénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: амплифика́ција f

  Latin: amplifikácija (sh) f

• Spanish: amplificación (es) f

in electronics

• Bulgarian: усилване (bg) (usilvane)
• Catalan: amplificació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: forstærkning c
• Dutch: versterking (nl) f
• Finnish: vahvistaminen (fi)
• Galician: amplificación (gl) f
• German: Verstärkung (de) f
• Irish: aimpliú m, aimpliúchán m
• Japanese: 増幅 (ja) (ぞうふく, zōfuku)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forsterkning m or f

  Nynorsk: forsterkning f

• Portuguese: amplificação (pt) f
• Romanian: amplificare (ro) f
• Russian: усиле́ние (ru) n (usilénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: амплифика́ција f

  Latin: amplifikácija (sh) f

• Spanish: amplificación (es) f

in genetics

• Catalan: amplificació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: forstærkning c
• Dutch: amplificatie (nl) f
• Finnish: monistaminen (fi)
• French: amplification (fr) f
• Irish: aimpliú m, aimpliúchán m
• Italian: amplificazione (it) f
• Polish: amplifikacja f
• Portuguese: amplificação (pt) f
• Spanish: amplificación (es) f

in organic chemistry

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: amplificatie (nl) f
• Finnish: amplifikaatio

in translation studies

• Azerbaijani: amplifikasiya
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: uitbreiding (nl) f, aanvulling (nl) f
• Finnish: laajentaminen (fi)
• Polish: amplifikacja f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• German: ^{(please verify)} Amplificatio, ^{(please verify)} Amplifikation (de) f
• Russian: ^{(please verify)} амплифика́ция (ru) f (amplifikácija)

Further reading

• “amplification”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “amplification”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

French

Etymology

From Latin amplificātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.pli.fi.ka.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Noun

amplification f (plural amplifications)

1. amplification (all senses)

Related terms

• amplifier

Further reading

• “amplification”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012