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Elaborate vs Amplification - What's the difference?

elaborate | amplification |

As an adjective elaborate

is highly complex, detailed, or sophisticated.

As a verb elaborate

is (used with'' on ''when used with an object ) to give further detail or explanation (about).

As a noun amplification is

the act, or result of amplifying, enlarging, extending or adding.

elaborate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Highly complex, detailed, or sophisticated.
  • :
  • Intricate, fancy, flashy, or showy.
  • :
  • *
  • *:The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.
  • Verb

    (elaborat)
  • (used with'' on ''when used with an object ) To give further detail or explanation (about).
  • What do you mean you didn't come home last night? Would you care to elaborate ?
    Could you elaborate on the plot for your novel for me?

    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)