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Electronic equipment to increase signal strength
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amplifier
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s; agent noun from amplify . Electronic sense is from 1914; shortened form amp is from 1967. Alternative stentorphone (1921) did not catch on.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE operational ▪ IC1 acts as the input buffer stage, and it is a simple operational amplifier non-inverting mode circuit. ▪ Note that the saturation potential differences are close to the supply e.m.f.s biasing the ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Amplifier \Am"pli*fi`er\, n. One who or that which amplifies.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
An amplifier , electronic amplifier or (informally) amp is an electronic component that can increase the power of a signal . An amplifier functions by taking power from a power supply and controlling the output to match the input signal shape but with a ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Anything that amplify, or makes something larger or more intense. 2 (context electronics English) An appliance or circuit that increases the strength of a weak electricity signal without changing the other characteristics of the signal. 3 (context ...
Usage examples of amplifier.
It was difficult to blanket the station without an amplifier helmet, but the only one available was suspect.
What if they had made some machine to shelter them, something more powerful than the giant amplifier the thrint patriarchs had built on Homeworld?
Chief Slave said the amplifier had been fully repaired, and he believed it.
He touched his hands to the head-bandages again, and looked over at the new amplifier helmet.
A little like the one that had slipped away during the disastrous experiment with the jury-rigged amplifier helmet, able to think without contemplating itself.
He cast another glace of longing and terror at the amplifier as he passed.
Ordinary amplifier helmets had little or no effect on an adult male thrint, able to shield.
She had no amplifier, but no matter: there was time for volume later on.
He had no doubt that, had he that very day plugged her guitar into an amplifier, he would have wept.
Christa was standing in front of a cheap amplifier, a light-green guitar in her hands.
The amplifier tubes finished heating, and the speakers hissed faintly.
Christa do the actual hook-up of the amplifier and the stereo, insisting that if she did not start learning about electronics immediately, she would be lost in rock and roll.
The notes rippled out of the amplifier, washed through the room like molten metal, hung in the air like stars.
Her boots crunched on pulverized glass as she stretched up on tiptoe to peer into the back of the amplifier head.
Christa picked up Ceis and threw the volume knobs of her amplifier full on.