Exponential vs Amplify - What's the difference?

As an adjective exponential

is relating to an exponent.

is (mathematics) any function that has an exponent as an independent variable.

to render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like;—used especially of loudspeakers, telescopes, microscopes, etc.

(wikipedia exponential)

(head)

Relating to an exponent.

(mathematics) Expressed in terms of a power of e.

In modern English, used to describe a high or rapid rate of change.

* exponentially * exponential growth * exponential object

* nonexponential

(en noun)

(mathematics) Any function that has an exponent as an independent variable.

(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.

* *