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uitbreiding — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • amplification noun The act, or result, of making something bigger, fuller or more extensive.
  • extension noun An extra part added to something to make it larger or longer, or an extra period of time granted beyond an original deadline.

Senses

uitbreiding is used for these senses in English:

  • amplification (translation studies) A translation technique that involves adding content that is not present in the source text to the target text, usually to improve the fluency of the translation.
  • extension (ring theory, of an ideal in the domain of a ring homomorphism) The ideal in the codomain generated by the image of the given ideal under the given homomorphism.

amplification — full definition

  1. noun The act, or result, of making something bigger, fuller or more extensive.
  2. noun The act, or result, of boosting a quantity such as voltage, power or electric current on its own.
  3. noun (genetics) The use of a lab technique called PCR to copy and multiply a stretch of DNA many times over.
  4. noun (chemistry) A way of naming compounds in which parts of a basic structure are swapped for ring-shaped groups.

extension — full definition

  1. noun An extra part added to something to make it larger or longer, or an extra period of time granted beyond an original deadline.
  2. noun A small program that adds features to a web browser or other software.
  3. noun An additional telephone line within an office or building, or the short number that reaches it.
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