Verstärkung — meaning in English

English meaning

• amplification noun The act, or result, of making something bigger, fuller or more extensive.
• gain verb To get or come to have something, especially something useful or valuable.
• intensification noun The process of becoming, or making something, stronger or more extreme.
• 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 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.

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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