Word Finder - amplifying

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To render larger, more extended, or more intense.

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amplify a microscopes

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To enlarge by addition or commenting; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand.

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To increase the amplitude of something, especially of an electric current.

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amplify a signal

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To add content that is not present in the source text to the target text, usually to improve the fluency of the translation.

She stepped away from the monument amplifying her magic and followed her father.

By selectively amplifying fungal DNA it had been shown that, in bluebells, 2 or 3 genera of arbuscular mycorrhiza are present.

Active cradle / holder for amplifying sat nav instructions, the mounts will also charge the PDA and gps receiver.

Interactive Flash Tutorial Photomultiplier Tubes Discover how photomultipliers work by amplifying the electrons generated by a photocathode exposed to a photon flux.

Hague, however, has tacked further to the right, amplifying those stances which were already most unpopular with the electorate.

Mo'Beats from iLuv serves double duty as a speaker and stand, which makes it a very convenient solution for amplifying sound while also propping up your iPad for easy viewing.

From soft gel seat cushions and sound amplifying telephones to soft snugly throws and large print playing cards, there are all sorts of gift ideas for senior citizens.

This is because you are using the effects of infrared light rather than electronically amplifying the light.

All night vision goggles work by taking the existing ambient light and amplifying it to make it possible for you to actually see.

Infrared goggles can work by amplifying the light until it's detectable or by thermal imaging, where warmer objects show up in the line of vision while cold ones do not.

Amplifying the phrase, "wrong place at the wrong time", the intro movie has Lucas sitting in a diner's bathroom having a seizure and stabbing crazy symbols on his arms.

As such, people end up using considerably more weight on the leg extension than the leg curl, thus amplifying the muscular imbalance.

In reasserting and amplifying the empirical conclusions of his predecessors, especially in the sphere of ethics, Mill's chief function was the introduction of the humanist element.

He, too, travelling as a Moslem pilgrim, noted the whole ritual of the pilgrimage with the same keen observation as Burckhardt, and while amplifying somewhat the latter's description of Medina, confirms the accuracy of his work there and at Mecca in almost every detail.

On the 16th of November 1905 a new Navy Bill amplifying the programme of 1900 was accepted by the Federal Diet.

From one point of view the haggada, amplifying and developing the contents of Hebrew scripture in response to a popular religious need, may be termed a rabbinical commentary on the Old Testament, containing traditional stories and legends, sometimes amusing, sometimes trival, and often beautiful.

For example, we find Plutarch amplifying the suggestion in Plato's latest treatise (the Laws) that this imperfection is due to a bad world-soul that strives against the good, - a suggestion which is alien to the general tenor of Plato's doctrine, and had consequently been unnoticed during the intervening centuries.

Taking first the sagas relating to Icelanders, of which some thirty-five or forty remain out of thrice that number, they were first written down between 1140 and 1220, in the generation which succeeded Ari and felt the g impulse his books had given to writing, on separate scrolls, no doubt mainly for the reciter's convenience; they then went through the different phases which such popular compositions have to pass in all lands - editing and compounding (1220-1260), padding and amplifying (1260-1300), and finally collection in large MSS.

If you have almost no productivity, amplifying it won't really help all that much.