Amplify vs Overamplify - What's the difference?
amplify | overamplify |
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
To increase the amplitude of something, especially of an electric current.
To amplify to an extent that distorts the original sound or signal
*{{quote-book, 2006, , Fire Sale
, passage=Pastor Andres's public voice was deep and rumbly; with the mike overamplifying him, and the faint Hispanic accent, he was hard to understand. }}
Overamplify is a related term of amplify.
As verbs the difference between amplify and overamplify
is that amplify is to render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like;—used especially of loudspeakers, telescopes, microscopes, etc while overamplify is to amplify to an extent that distorts the original sound or signal.amplify
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(en-verb)- Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator.
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