amplify

v. strengthen, reinforce, make stronger; expand; increase the amplitude

Amplification may refer to:The operation of an amplifier, a natural or artificial device intended to make a signal stronger.Amplification (rhetoric), a figure of speech that adds importance to increase its rhetorical effect.Amplification (psychology) in which physical symptoms are affected by psychological state.Polymerase Chain Reaction in molecular biology, the method for creating multiple copies of DNA or RNA without using a living organism
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Verb
1. increase in size, volume or significance; "Her terror was magnified in her mind"
(synonym) magnify
(hypernym) enlarge
(derivation) amplifier
2. to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"
(synonym) overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyerbolise, magnify
(hypernym) misinform, mislead
(hyponym) overemphasize, overemphasise, overstress
3. exaggerate or make bigger; "The charges were inflated"
(synonym) inflate, blow up, expand
(hypernym) increase
(hyponym) puff up
4. increase the volume of; "amplify sound"
(hypernym) intensify, compound, heighten, deepen
(derivation) amplifier

(v. t.)
To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like; -- used especially of telescopes, microscopes, etc.
  

(v. t.)
To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand; to make much of.
  

(v. i.)
To speak largely or copiously; to be diffuse in argument or description; to dilate; to expatiate; -- often with on or upon.
  

(v. i.)
To become larger.
  

to increase the amplitude.