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Aggravation vs Amplification - What's the difference?

aggravation | amplification |

As nouns the difference between aggravation and amplification

is that aggravation is the act of aggravating, or making worse; used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences while amplification is the act, or result of amplifying, enlarging, extending or adding.

aggravation

English

(Webster 1913)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of aggravating, or making worse; used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.
  • Exaggerated representation.
  • An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.
  • Synonyms

    * provocation, irritation.

    amplification

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • the act, or result of amplifying, enlarging, extending or adding
  • (physics) the act, or result of independently increasing some quantity, especially voltage, power or current
  • (electronics) gain
  • (genetics) The using of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for isolating and exponentially amplifying a fragment or sequence of DNA
  • (organic chemistry) A procedure used in the nomenclature of complex organic compounds in which the superatoms of a basic structure (a phane) are replaced by cyclic structures (amplificants)