Vergrößerung — meaning in English

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.
• dilatation noun Speech or writing that goes on for far too long.
• 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

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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