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amplification

[am-pluh-fi-key-shuhn] / ˌæm plə fɪˈkeɪ ʃən /


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If Charlottesville taught journalists to be wary of amplifying ideology, the current moment demands an understanding that, in an attention economy, amplification itself is the ideology.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026

It took the combination of shellac discs, electronic amplification and an automatic record-changer for National Automatic Music Company to manufacture the first 20-song multiplay machines in 1927.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026

"It's mostly about making the signal amplification stronger or increasing the amount of squeezing. One way to do that is to control the position of the spins in the 2Dxy plane, forming a regular array."

From Science Daily • Nov. 11, 2025

Opera’s invaluable source for progressive and unexpected new work, tends to go in for blatant amplification.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2025

What to others would have been a muffling was to her alert senses, which were fine-tuned like the cats whiskers of an old wireless, an almost unbearable amplification.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan