Vergrößerung — meaning in English
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English meaning
- amplification noun The act, or result of amplifying, enlarging, extending or adding.
- augmentation noun The act or process of augmenting.
- dilatation noun Prolixity; diffuse discourse.
- enlargement noun The act of making something bigger, or the resulting increase in size.
- increase verb To become larger in amount, number, or degree.
- magnification noun The act or process of making something look bigger, or the amount by which it is enlarged.
- proliferation noun A rapid increase in the number or spread of something.
- zoom verb To move very quickly, often with a humming or rushing sound.
Senses
Vergrößerung 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.
- increase An amount by which a quantity is increased.
- proliferation (countable) The act of increasing, rising, or proliferating; augmentation, amplification, enlargement, escalation, aggrandizement.
amplification — full definition
- noun The act, or result of amplifying, enlarging, extending or adding.
- noun The act, or result of independently increasing some quantity, especially voltage, power or current.
- noun The using of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for isolating and exponentially amplifying a fragment or sequence of DNA.
- 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
- noun The act or process of augmenting.
- noun An addition or extra, something that is added to something else.
- 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.
- noun A surgical procedure to enlarge a body part, as breast augmentation.