Antonyms for amplification

Grammar : Noun

Spell : am-pluh-fi-key-shuh n

Phonetic Transcription : ˌæm plə fɪˈkeɪ ʃən

Definition of amplification

Origin : 1540s, "enlargement," from Latin amplificationem (nominative amplificatio) "a widening, extending," noun of action from past participle stem of amplificare (see amplify). Electronics sense is from 1915.

noun increase in size or effect

Example sentences :

"Because of the limit of amplification in the tubes," Arcot replied.
Extract from : « Islands of Space » by John W Campbell

We must strike some sort of balance between my brevity and your amplification.
Extract from : « Seen and Unseen » by E. Katharine Bates

It is weak in amplification of examples during an age when amplification was practiced.
Extract from : « A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes » by Richard Sherry

The book, then, is an amplification of the Bible book of "Daniel."
Extract from : « A Thousand Years of Jewish History » by Maurice H. (Maurice Henry) Harris

The death of the martyrs was at that time an amplification of rhetoric.
Extract from : « Bouvard and Pcuchet, part 2 » by Gustave Flaubert

Only it should have been written there, in amplification, that there is a limit.
Extract from : « Local Color » by Irvin S. Cobb

Of this, my present memoir is little more than an amplification.
Extract from : « Secret History of the English Occupation of Egypt » by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

The whole passage is an amplification and description of the "word" of ver.
Extract from : « Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St Luke » by Henry Burton

Choose your C-battery for amplification and not detection and try to receive.
Extract from : « Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son » by John Mills

There is also a fourth operation which is usually performed and that is amplification.
Extract from : « Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son » by John Mills

Synonyms for amplification

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