AMPLIFIER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does amplifier mean? 

• AMPLIFIER (noun)
  The noun AMPLIFIER has 1 sense:

1. electronic equipment that increases strength of signals passing through it

  Familiarity information: AMPLIFIER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMPLIFIER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Electronic equipment that increases strength of signals passing through it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("amplifier" is a kind of...):

electronic equipment (equipment that involves the controlled conduction of electrons (especially in a gas or vacuum or semiconductor))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "amplifier"):

audio amplifier (an amplifier that increases the amplitude of reproduced sound)

booster; booster amplifier; booster station; relay link; relay station; relay transmitter (an amplifier for restoring the strength of a transmitted signal)

maser (an acronym for microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation; an amplifier that works on the same principle as a laser and emits coherent microwave radiation)

Holonyms ("amplifier" is a part of...):

P.A.; P.A. system; PA; PA system; public address system (an electronic amplification system used as a communication system in public areas)

radio; radio receiver; radio set; receiving set; tuner; wireless (an electronic receiver that detects and demodulates and amplifies transmitted signals)

stereo; stereo system; stereophonic system; stereophony (reproducer in which two microphones feed two or more loudspeakers to give a three-dimensional effect to the sound)

Derivation:

amplify (increase the volume of)

amplify (increase in size, volume or significance)

 Context examples 

An amplifier that doubles the voltage or frequency of an input signal.

(Doubler Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

C-VISA BikDD: liposome consists of a pancreatic-cancer-specific expression vector VISA (VP16-GAL4-WPRE integrated systemic amplifier) and a pancreatic-cancer-specific promoter CCKAR (cholecystokinin type A receptor) (CCKAR-VISA or C-VISA) which drives expression of the gene BikDD, a mutant form of the potent proapoptotic gene Bik (Bcl-2 interacting killer).

(C-VISA BikDD:Liposome, NCI Thesaurus)