amplifier

English

Etymology

From amplify +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈæm.plə.faɪ.ə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæm.plə.faɪ.ɚ/, /ˈæm.plə.faɪɹ/
• Rhymes: -aɪ.ə(ɹ)

Noun

amplifier (plural amplifiers)

1. Anything that amplifies, or makes something larger or more intense.
   • 2022 November 21, Barney Ronay, “Iran’s brave and powerful gesture is a small wonder from a World Cup of woe”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     The football team is not an extension of Iran’s leaders, but is in fact the opposite, seen as an amplifier for freedom, group expression, modernity.

2. (linguistics) An adverb that adds intensity, such as "really" or "totally".
3. (electronics) An appliance or circuit that increases the strength of a weak electrical signal without changing the other characteristics of the signal.
4. (music) A portable encasement that houses a large speaker, used to amplify voices and musical instruments at live performances.
5. A lens that enlarges the field of vision.

Derived terms

• bioamplifier
• Darlington amplifier
• error amplifier
• linear amplifier
• microamplifier
• multiamplifier
• parametric amplifier
• photoamplifier
• power amplifier
• preamplifier
• push-pull amplifier
• sense amplifier
• tube amplifier
• valve amplifier

 

Related terms

• ample
• amplifiable
• amplification
• amplificatory
• amplify
• amplifying glass
• amplitude

 

Translations

anything that amplifies

• Bulgarian: усилвател m (usilvatel)
• Catalan: amplificador m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 放大器 (zh) (fàngdàqì)

• Danish: forstærker c
• Finnish: vahvistin (fi)
• French: amplificateur (fr) m
• German: Verstärker (de) m
• Irish: aimplitheoir m
• Macedonian: заси́лувач m (zasíluvač)
• Portuguese: amplificador (pt) m
• Russian: усили́тель (ru) m (usilítelʹ)
• Spanish: amplificador (es) m, amplificadora (es) f
• Swedish: förstärkare (sv) c
• Vietnamese: bộ khuếch đại, máy khuếch đại, thiết bị khuếch đại
• Welsh: mwyhadur m

appliance or circuit

• Arabic: مضخم إلكتروني
• Bengali: বিবর্ধক (bn) (bibordhok)
• Bulgarian: усилвател m (usilvatel)
• Catalan: amplificador m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 放大器 (zh) (fàngdàqì)

• Czech: zesilovač (cs) m
• Dutch: versterker (nl)
• Finnish: vahvistin (fi), vahvari (fi)
• French: amplificateur (fr) m
• German: Verstärker (de)
• Hebrew: מַגְבֵּר (he)
• Hungarian: erősítő (hu)
• Indonesian: amplifier, penguat (id)
• Irish: aimplitheoir m
• Italian: amplificatore (it) m
• Japanese: 増幅器 (ぞうふくき, zōfukuki), アンプ (ja) (anpu)
• Kazakh: зорайтқыш (zoraitqyş)
• Korean: 앰프 (aempeu), 증폭기(增幅器) (jeungpokgi)
• Macedonian: заси́лувач m (zasíluvač)
• Maori: whākaha oro
• Polish: amplifikator (pl) m (dated), wzmacniacz (pl) m
• Portuguese: amplificador (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਐਂਪਲੀਫਾਇਰ (aimpalīphāira)
• Russian: усили́тель (ru) m (usilítelʹ)
• Slovak: zosilňovač
• Spanish: amplificador (es) m
• Swedish: förstärkare (sv) c
• Tagalog: pangibayo
• Thai: ตัวขยายสัญญาณ
• Turkish: amplifikatör (tr)
• Vietnamese: khuếch đại điện tử
• Welsh: mwyhadur m

type of adverb

• Finnish: vahvistava adverbi

in music

• Finnish: vahvistin (fi), vahvari (fi)
• Hungarian: erősítő (hu)
• Swedish: förstärkare (sv) c

See also

• gain

French

Etymology

From Latin amplificāre (“to enlarge”), from amplus (“large”) + faciō, facere (“make”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.pli.fje/

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Verb

amplifier

1. to amplify

Conjugation

Conjugation of amplifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	amplifier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	amplifiant /ɑ̃.pli.fjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		amplifié /ɑ̃.pli.fje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	amplifie /ɑ̃.pli.fi/	amplifies /ɑ̃.pli.fi/	amplifie /ɑ̃.pli.fi/	amplifions /ɑ̃.pli.fjɔ̃/	amplifiez /ɑ̃.pli.fje/	amplifient /ɑ̃.pli.fi/
	imperfect	amplifiais /ɑ̃.pli.fjɛ/	amplifiais /ɑ̃.pli.fjɛ/	amplifiait /ɑ̃.pli.fjɛ/	amplifiions /ɑ̃.pli.fi.jɔ̃/	amplifiiez /ɑ̃.pli.fi.je/	amplifiaient /ɑ̃.pli.fjɛ/
	past historic2	amplifiai /ɑ̃.pli.fje/	amplifias /ɑ̃.pli.fja/	amplifia /ɑ̃.pli.fja/	amplifiâmes /ɑ̃.pli.fjam/	amplifiâtes /ɑ̃.pli.fjat/	amplifièrent /ɑ̃.pli.fjɛʁ/
	future	amplifierai /ɑ̃.pli.fi.ʁe/	amplifieras /ɑ̃.pli.fi.ʁa/	amplifiera /ɑ̃.pli.fi.ʁa/	amplifierons /ɑ̃.pli.fi.ʁɔ̃/	amplifierez /ɑ̃.pli.fi.ʁe/	amplifieront /ɑ̃.pli.fi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	amplifierais /ɑ̃.pli.fi.ʁɛ/	amplifierais /ɑ̃.pli.fi.ʁɛ/	amplifierait /ɑ̃.pli.fi.ʁɛ/	amplifierions /ɑ̃.pli.fi.ʁjɔ̃/	amplifieriez /ɑ̃.pli.fi.ʁje/	amplifieraient /ɑ̃.pli.fi.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	amplifie /ɑ̃.pli.fi/	amplifies /ɑ̃.pli.fi/	amplifie /ɑ̃.pli.fi/	amplifiions /ɑ̃.pli.fi.jɔ̃/	amplifiiez /ɑ̃.pli.fi.je/	amplifient /ɑ̃.pli.fi/
	imperfect2	amplifiasse /ɑ̃.pli.fjas/	amplifiasses /ɑ̃.pli.fjas/	amplifiât /ɑ̃.pli.fja/	amplifiassions /ɑ̃.pli.fja.sjɔ̃/	amplifiassiez /ɑ̃.pli.fja.sje/	amplifiassent /ɑ̃.pli.fjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	amplifie /ɑ̃.pli.fi/	—	amplifions /ɑ̃.pli.fjɔ̃/	amplifiez /ɑ̃.pli.fje/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• amplificateur

Further reading

• “amplifier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.