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Amplified vs Augmented - What's the difference?

amplified | augmented |

As verbs the difference between amplified and augmented

is that amplified is (amplify) while augmented is (augment).

As an adjective augmented is

increased in number, amount or strength.

amplified

English

Verb

(head)
  • (amplify)

    • amplify

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like;—used especially of loudspeakers, telescopes, microscopes, etc.
  • (rhetorical) To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand; to make much of.
  • * Dryden
    • Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator.
  • To increase the amplitude of something, especially of an electric current.

    • Related terms

    () * ample * amplifiable * amplification * amplifier * amplificatory * amplitude

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    augmented

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • increased in number, amount or strength.
  • (music) increased by a semitone.

    • Derived terms

    * augmented amicable pair * augmented assignment * augmented Backus-Naur form * augmented chord * augmented dodecahedron * augmented feedback * augmented fifth * augmented hexagonal prism * augmented matrix * augmented pentagonal prism * augmented polyhedron * augmented reality * augmented sixth * augmented sixth chord * augmented social network * augmented sphenocorona * augmented transition network * augmented triangular prism * augmented tridiminished isocahedron * augmented truncated cube * augmented truncated dodecahedron * augmented truncated tetrahedron * augmented Tchebycheff function

    Related terms

    * augmentation

    Verb

    (head)
  • (augment)