AMPLIFY


Meaning of AMPLIFY in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ æmplɪfaɪ ]

( amplifies, amplifying, amplified)

1.

If you amplify a sound, you make it louder, usually by using electronic equipment.

This landscape seemed to trap and amplify sounds...

The music was amplified with microphones...

‘This is the police,’ came the amplified voice from the helicopter.

VERB : V n , V n , V-ed

• am‧pli‧fi‧ca‧tion

...a voice that needed no amplification.

N-UNCOUNT

2.

To amplify something means to increase its strength or intensity.

The mist had been replaced by a kind of haze that seemed to amplify the heat...

VERB : V n

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