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Amplification: Making multiple copies of a gene or of any sequence of DNA. Repeated copying of a piece of DNA.
In amplification there is an increase in the number of copies of any particular piece of DNA. Gene amplification plays a role in cancer cells. A tumor cell amplifies, or copies, DNA segments as a result of cell signals and sometimes environmental events.
Amplification can occur in vivo (in the living individual) or in vitro (literally "in glass", or in a plastic vessel in the laboratory).
Library > Literature & Language > Dictionary ( ăm ' plÉ™-fÄ-kÄ ' shÉ™n ) n. The act or result of amplifying, enlarging, or extending. An addition to or expansion ...
am·pli·fi·ca·tion (m pl-f-k sh n) n. 1. The act or result of amplifying, enlarging, or extending. 2. a. An addition to or expansion of a statement or idea.
noun 1. the act of amplifying or the state of being amplified . 2. expansion of a statement, narrative, etc., as for rhetorical purposes: In the revision, the story ...
Definition: A rhetorical term for all the ways that an argument, explanation, or description can be expanded and enriched. A natural virtue in an oral culture, amplification ...
amplification /am·pli·fi·ca·tion/ (33000) (am″plÄ-fÄ-ka´shun) the process of making larger, such as the increase of an auditory stimulus, as a means of ...