Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that amplifies, enlarges, or extends.
- n. Electronics A device, especially one using transistors or electron tubes, that produces amplification of an electrical signal.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who amplifies or enlarges.
- n. A lens placed in the tube of a microscope between the object-glass and the eyepiece. See microscope.
Wiktionary
- n. Anything that amplifies, or makes something larger or more intense.
- n. electronics An appliance or circuit that increases the strength of a weak electrical signal without changing the other characteristics of the signal.
- n. US, music An amp, specif. a particular type of speaker used to amplify voices and musical instruments at live performances.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who or that which amplifies.
WordNet 3.0
- n. electronic equipment that increases strength of signals passing through it
Examples
“The nice thing about a vinyl record played through a radiogram with a tube (valve) amplifier is that it sounded warm as opposed to bright.”
“There was a sudden scratching sound and the hum of an amplifier from the speakers in the ceiling.”
“As I tweated, amplifier is an awesome name for an award to win!”
“The amplifier is plugged into a USB port of the notebook for signal acquisition.”
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“An oscillator circuit is basically a unity gain amplifier with the output feeding the input (phased shifted by 180 degrees).”
“Because the sensitivity of the crystal detectors and amplifier is more than”
“The principle of construction of an amplifier is very simple.”
“wrote favorably about the A-50T integrated amplifier from the Chinese company Cayin Audio.”
“It's a weird thing - a £600 amplifier, which is basically for hi-fi use it has phono inputs and speaker outputs on the back but with a guitar input on the front.”
“Atop the amplifier was a synthesized rhythm box; in front of it, a propped cardboard sign that read THE MANY MOODS OF SAMMY DALE in gilt-edged calligraphy.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘amplifier’.
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
silicon, silica, shrimp, shelve, shallot, serine, seedling, septic, secretin, seaweed, screening, Scomber and 1171 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
veal, valve, used, yak, wax, wan, teak, vat, vas, strip, use, strap and 4515 more...
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MUSIC - ALL TERMS
With focus on non-classical styles, but not excluding terms of the latter.
banjo, accompaniment, acoustic bass, bass guitar, bass clef, ground, brass, cornet, Mute, alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, arrangement and 866 more...
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Guitarist's Glossary
frets, fretboard, neck, peghead, headstock, tuners, tuning machines, strings, bridge, tremolo, whammy bar, sound hole and 201 more...
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