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vergroting — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • amplification noun The act, or result, of making something bigger, fuller or more extensive.
  • augmentation noun The act of making something bigger or increasing it.
  • enlargement noun The act of making something bigger, or the resulting increase in size.
  • power noun The ability to do something, or to control and influence people or events.
  • proliferation noun A rapid increase in the number or spread of something.

Senses

vergroting is used for these senses in English:

  • amplification The act, or result of amplifying, enlarging, extending or adding.
  • augmentation (medicine) A surgical procedure to enlarge a body part, as breast augmentation.
  • enlargement An act or instance of making something larger.
  • power The strength by which a lens or mirror magnifies an optical image.
  • proliferation (countable) The act of increasing, rising, or proliferating; augmentation, amplification, enlargement, escalation, aggrandizement.

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.

augmentation — full definition

  1. noun The act of making something bigger or increasing it.
  2. noun Something extra added to increase or improve another thing.
  3. noun A special heraldic mark of honor given by a monarch and added to a family's coat of arms.
  4. noun An operation that makes a part of the body larger, such as breast surgery.
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