amplify
English
Etymology
From Middle English amplifiyen, from Old French amplifier, from Latin amplificare (“to enlarge”), from amplus (“large”) + facere (“to make”). See ample.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈæmp.lɪ.faɪ/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: am‧pli‧fy
Verb
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.
- amplify the loudspeaker
- amplify a telescope
- amplify a microscopes
- amplify the message
- amplify an image on the screen
- amplify the impactof the project
- (transitive, rhetorical) To enlarge by addition or commenting; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand.
- 1700, John Dryden, Fables, Ancient and Modern
- Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator.
- 1700, John Dryden, Fables, Ancient and Modern
- (transitive) To increase the amplitude of something, especially of an electric current.
- amplify a signal
- (translation studies) To add content that is not present in the source text to the target text, usually to improve the fluency of the translation.
Related terms
Translations
render larger etc.
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enlarge rhetorically
increase amplitude
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Further reading
- amplify in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- amplify in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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