Augment vs Amplify - What's the difference?
augment | amplify |
To increase; to make larger or supplement.
(reflexive) To grow; to increase; to become greater.
(music) To slow the tempo or meter, e.g. for a dramatic or stately passage.
(music) To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone).
(grammar) To add an augment to.
(grammar) In some Indo-European languages, a prefix e-'' (''a- in Sanskrit) indicating a past tense of a 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
To increase the amplitude of something, especially of an electric current.
In transitive terms the difference between augment and amplify
is that augment is to increase; to make larger or supplement while amplify is to increase the amplitude of something, especially of an electric current.As a noun augment
is in some Indo-European languages, a prefix e- (a- in Sanskrit) indicating a past tense of a verb.augment
English
Verb
(en verb)- The money from renting out a spare room can augment a salary.
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* ----amplify
English
Verb
(en-verb)- Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator.
