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Definition of Amplifying
1. amplify [v] - See also: amplify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Amplifying
Literary usage of Amplifying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Paragraph-writing: A Rhetoric for Colleges by Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denny (1909)
"amplifying Paragraphs. — It is often the case that a thought which bears ...
The amplifying paragraph is of especial value in enforcing an idea in a ..."
2. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1850)
"... mistaking, amplifying them by continual and as it is eminent in all, so most
especially it rageth in melancholy persons, in keep"strong meditation, ..."
3. An Experimental Treatise on Optics: Comprehending the Leading Principles of by Jean Baptiste Biot (1826)
"amplifying Glass and Achromatic Eye-Glasses. -I 199. ... The employment of this
glass, called the amplifying glass, is common to all dioptric instruments. ..."
4. Measurements for Competitiveness in Electronics (1994)
"amplifying and Regenerating Signals For long runs of optical fiber, attenuation
from the fiber, from interconnections, and from components takes its toll. ..."
5. Radio Phone Receiving: A Practical Book for Everybody by Erich Hausmann, Alfred Norton Goldsmith, Louis Alan Hazeltine, John V. L. Hogan, John Harold Morecroft, Frank Emanuel Canavaciol, Robert D. Gibson, Paul C. Hoernel (1922)
"The problem of amplifying the music or speech received by radio is much more
complex than any of the above mentioned methods of magnification. ..."
6. The American Machinist Shop Note Book: A Collection of Articles by E.A. Suverkrop (1919)
"AN amplifying GAGE To assist in the rapid inspection of pieces made by students
taking a course in machine work at the Ohio State University an amplifying ..."
7. The Working Principles of Rhetoric Examined in Their Literary Relations and by John Franklin Genung (1900)
"THE amplifying IDEAS. he making of the plan, the course and movement of the
thought have been charted out; the relations of the main ideas to the theme and ..."
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