vergroting — meaning in English

English meaning

• amplification noun The act, or result of amplifying, enlarging, extending or adding.
• augmentation noun The act or process of augmenting.
• 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 amplifying, enlarging, extending or adding.
2. noun The act, or result of independently increasing some quantity, especially voltage, power or current.
3. noun The using of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for isolating and exponentially amplifying a fragment or sequence of DNA.
4. noun A procedure used in the nomenclature of complex organic compounds in which the superatoms of a basic structure (a phane) are replaced by cyclic structures (amplificants).

augmentation — full definition

1. noun The act or process of augmenting.
2. noun An addition or extra, something that is added to something else.
3. noun A particular mark of honour, granted by the sovereign in consideration of some noble action, or by favour; and either quartered with the family arms, or on an escutcheon or canton.
4. noun A surgical procedure to enlarge a body part, as breast augmentation.

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