noun the act of amplifying or enlarging in dimensions; enlargement; extension.
2. amplification ·noun the matter by which a statement is amplified; as, the subject was presented without amplifications.
3. amplification ·noun the enlarging of a simple statement by particularity of description, the use of epithets, ·etc., for rhetorical effect; diffuse narrative or description, or a dilating upon all the particulars of a subject.