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Verstärkung — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • amplification noun The act, or result of amplifying, enlarging, extending or adding.
  • gain verb To get or come to have something, especially something useful or valuable.
  • intensification noun The act or process of intensifying, or of making more intense.
  • proliferation noun A rapid increase in the number or spread of something.
  • reinforcement noun The act of making something stronger, or the material used to strengthen it.

Senses

Verstärkung is used for these senses in English:

  • amplification The act, or result of amplifying, enlarging, extending or adding.
  • gain (electronics) The factor by which a signal is multiplied.
  • gusset (mechanical engineering) A kind of bracket, or angular part, fastened in the angles of a structure to give strength or stiffness; especially, the part joining the barrel and the fire box of a locomotive boiler.
  • intensification The act or process of intensifying, or of making more intense.
  • 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).

gain — full definition

  1. verb To get or come to have something, especially something useful or valuable.
  2. verb To increase in weight, speed, value, or some other measurable quantity.
  3. verb To win or come out ahead in a contest or competition.
  4. noun An increase, improvement, or something acquired as a benefit.
  5. noun In electronics, the amount by which a device amplifies a signal.

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