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Lar vs Amplify - What's the difference?

lar | amplify |

As an abbreviation lar

is (liquid argon).

As a verb amplify is

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

lar

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A household or ancestral god in ancient Rome
  • *
  • The lar gibbon.
  • Usage notes

    (Lares) The first sense is most often used in English as the capitalized plurale tantum'' Lares. It is more often pluralized lares''' as in Latin than ' lars .

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    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.