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Definition of Amplification

1. Noun. Addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail. "An elaboration of the sketch followed"

2. Noun. The amount of increase in signal power or voltage or current expressed as the ratio of output to input.

3. Noun. (electronics) the act of increasing voltage or power or current.

Definition of Amplification

1. n. The act of amplifying or enlarging in dimensions; enlargement; extension.

Definition of Amplification

1. Noun. the act, or result of amplifying, enlarging, extending or adding to ¹

2. Noun. (physics) the act, or result of independently increasing some quantity, especially voltage, power or current ¹

3. Noun. (electronics) gain ¹

4. Noun. (genetics) using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for isolating and exponentially amplifying a fragment or sequence of DNA ¹

5. Noun. (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) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Amplification

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Medical Definition of Amplification

1. An increase in the number of copies of a specific DNA fragment, can be in vivo or in vitro. See: cloning, polymerase chain reaction. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Amplification

amplexiform amplexuses ampliate ampliatio ampliation ampliations ampliative amplicon amplicons amplidyne

amplidynes amplifiable amplificant amplificants amplification amplifications amplificatory amplified amplified fragment length polymorphism amplifier

amplifier host amplifiers amplifies amplify amplifying amplimer amplimers amplitude amplitude distortion

Literary usage of Amplification

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"The term amplification is used to embrace all changes leading to increased ... It is necessary to distinguish between those changes of amplification which ..."

2. The Practical Elements of Rhetoric: With Illustrative Examples by John Franklin Genung (1891)
"Amplification. IN the construction of the plan, the main ideas ... This is the office of rhetorical amplification. Amplification, the final process of ..."

3. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society by Royal Microscopical Society, London (1882)
"Apparatus for Projecting an Image to any required Distance with Variable Amplification-*—For lectures it is often desired to throw on the screen an image of ..."

4. The Elements of Rhetoric by James De Mille (1878)
"Amplification DEFINED. Amplification is the expansion of any topic by the ... Longinus defines amplification as " a full and complete assemblage of the ..."

5. Sensor Systems for Biological Agent Attacks: Protecting Buildings And by Bmed, National Research Council (U.S.), ebrary, Inc (2005)
"Group I: Assays That Use Amplification Techniques The majority of nucleic acid-sequence-based assays that are performed today rely on amplification of ..."

6. A Course of Lectures on Oratory and Criticism by Joseph Priestley (1781)
"... the amplification, or en-' largement, is nothing more than a ... nature of amplification, ..."

7. An English Grammar: Methodical, Analytical, and Historical. With a Treatise by Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner (1874)
"II sv Changes of the primitive word through its contraction and amplification. Among the changes which the surviving vocabulary of the English tongue has ..."

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