amplifications
Increases in magnitude
Amplifications are instances of making something larger, stronger, or more detailed.
The word applies across domains: electronic amplification increases signal strength, rhetorical amplification expands an argument with supporting detail, and genetic amplification produces multiple copies of DNA sequences.
In casual use, amplification often means elaboration: His amplifications of the original story made it twice as long.
Overstating beyond reality
- embellishmentDecorative addition or exaggeration
- hyperboleRhetorical extreme exaggeration
- overstatementClaim beyond the facts
- elaborationDevelopment through detail
magnification · dramatization · inflation · emphasis · intensification · heightening · aggrandizement · overemphasis
Positive return received
- boostUpward push or increase
- loudnessPerceived sound intensity
- volumeAmount of space filled
- decibelsAcoustic intensity units
speakers · distortion · feedback · preamp · overdrive · clipping · saturation · wattage
Degree of visual enlargement
- replicationAct of duplicating precisely
- duplicationMaking an identical copy
- multiplicationProduct-finding operation
- PCRDNA amplification technique
cloning · propagation · sequencing · primers · enzymes · polymerase · cycles · genomic
Increasing force or level
- strengtheningIncreasing power or solidity
- repeatersThings that echo forward
- transmittersDevices that send signals
- antennasSignal-receiving apparatus
receivers · broadcasting · bandwidth · frequency · modulation · attenuation · circuitry · transistors
Expanded explanations with detail
- expansionsIncreases in size
- clarificationsStatements removing ambiguity
- explanationsStatements clarifying something
- detailsSpecific pieces of information
extensions · supplements · additions · developments · enhancements · explorations · annotations · commentaries
exaggeration
Overstating beyond reality
- embellishmentDecorative addition or exaggeration
- hyperboleRhetorical extreme exaggeration
- overstatementClaim beyond the facts
elaboration · magnification · dramatization · inflation · emphasis · intensification · heightening · aggrandizement · overemphasis · sensationalism
gain
Positive return received
decibels · speakers · distortion · feedback · preamp · overdrive · clipping · saturation · wattage · headroom
magnification
Degree of visual enlargement
- replicationAct of duplicating precisely
- duplicationMaking an identical copy
- multiplicationProduct-finding operation
PCR · cloning · propagation · sequencing · primers · enzymes · polymerase · cycles · genomic · molecular
boosting
Increasing force or level
- strengtheningIncreasing power or solidity
- repeatersThings that echo forward
- transmittersDevices that send signals
antennas · receivers · broadcasting · bandwidth · frequency · modulation · attenuation · circuitry · transistors · conductors
elaborations
Expanded explanations with detail
- expansionsIncreases in size
- clarificationsStatements removing ambiguity
- explanationsStatements clarifying something
details · extensions · supplements · additions · developments · enhancements · explorations · annotations · commentaries · interpretations
- elucidationsclarifications, explanations, definitions, interpretations, expositions
- Genetic Mutationsmutations, point mutation, mutagenesis, gene mutation, nonsense
amplificationsreductions
Acts of lessening
contractions · condensations · abridgments · compressions · abbreviations
amplificationssuppressions
Acts of forcibly subduing
reductions · softenings · dampening · muting · quieting
- sound amplificationIncreasing volume electronically