Magnified vs Amplified - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between magnified and amplified

is that magnified is past tense of magnify while amplified is past tense of amplify.

is having been visually enlarged by the process of magnification.

(en adjective)

Having been visually enlarged by the process of magnification.

The image was magnified by eight times.

* enlarged

(head)

(magnify)

(head)

(amplify)

(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.

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