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Amplification : (noun)
1: addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying
detail; "a few remarks added in amplification and
defense"; "an elaboration of the idea followed" [syn: elaboration]
2: the amount of increase in signal power or voltage or current
expressed as the ratio of output to input [syn: gain]
3: (electronics) the act of increasing voltage or power or
current
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Amplification : \Am`pli*fi*ca"tion\, n. [L. amplificatio.]
1. The act of amplifying or enlarging in dimensions;
enlargement; extension.
2. (Rhet.) The enlarging of a simple statement by
particularity of description, the use of epithets, etc.,
for rhetorical effect; diffuse narrative or description,
or a dilating upon all the particulars of a subject.
Exaggeration is a species of amplification. --Brande
& C.
I shall summarily, without any amplification at all,
show in what manner defects have been supplied.
--Sir J.
Davies.
3. The matter by which a statement is amplified; as, the
subject was presented without amplifications.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Amplification : Amplification: Making multiple copies of a DNA . Repeated copying of a piece of DNA.
In amplification there is an increase in the number of copies of any particular piece of DNA. tumor cell amplifies, or copies, DNA segments as a result of cell signals and sometimes
environmental events.
Amplification can occur in vitro (literally "in glass", or in a plastic vessel in the laboratory).
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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