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Reinforcement vs Amplification - What's the difference?

reinforcement | amplification |

As nouns the difference between reinforcement and amplification

is that reinforcement is (uncountable) the act, process, or state of reinforcing or being reinforced while amplification is the act, or result of amplifying, enlarging, extending or adding.

reinforcement

English

Alternative forms

* re-enforcement, reenforcement,

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (uncountable) The act, process, or state of reinforcing or being reinforced.
  • (countable) A thing that reinforces.
  • (in the plural) Additional troops or materiel sent to support a military action.
  • The process whereby a behavior with desirable consequences comes to be repeated.

    • Derived terms

    * negative reinforcement * positive reinforcement * primary reinforcement

    See also

    * punishment * operant conditioning * classical conditioning

    amplification

    English

    (wikipedia 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)

    • Related terms

    * ample * amplifiable * amplifier * amplificatory * amplify * amplitude

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