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Amplification vs Repetition - What's the difference?

amplification | repetition |

As nouns the difference between amplification and repetition

is that amplification is the act, or result of amplifying, enlarging, extending or adding while repetition is the act or an instance of repeating or being repeated.

As a verb repetition is

to petition again.

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)
  • repetition

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) repetitionem'' (accusative singular of ''repetitio ).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or an instance of repeating or being repeated.
  • *
  • *:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
  • (lb): The act of performing a single, controlled exercise motion; also called a rep'. A group of ' repetitions is a set.
  • Etymology 2

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To petition again.
  • * 2011 , Anneke Campbell, ?Thomas Lizney, Be the Change (page 7)
  • The group went through several rounds at different courts, petitioning and repetitioning , losing again and again.

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