单词 | amplifier |
释义 | amplifier (once / 16624 pages) n An amplifier is a device that makes an electronic signal stronger, and it's most often used to increase the volume of musical instruments. If you play electric guitar in a rock band, you use an amplifier. In scientific terms, an amplifier can increase (or amplify) any type of signal, including magnetic signals and optical signals. When people talk about amplifiers, they usually mean the ones used by musicians and sound engineers. If you plug your electric bass guitar into an amplifier, you can make the sound loud enough that your next door neighbors will be able to hear it. You can call an amplifier an amp for short. WORD FAMILYamplifier: amplifiers+/amplification: amplifications/amplify: amplification, amplified, amplifier, amplifies, amplifying USAGE EXAMPLESShe looked like a mannequin under a pile of charred wreckage about a dozen feet high, among pianos, drum kits and amplifiers coated with soot. Los Angeles Times(Dec 18, 2016) That was it: the power and magic of distorted guitars. blasting through loud Marshall amplifiers. Washington Times(Dec 10, 2016) In the moments leading up to a Pig Destroyer show I once caught, Hull tested his amplifier with three choppy strums of the guitar. Washington Post(Dec 01, 2016) n electronic equipment that increases strength of signals passing through it Hypo|Hyper audio amplifier an amplifier that increases the amplitude of reproduced sound booster, booster amplifier, booster station, relay link, relay station, relay transmitteran amplifier for restoring the strength of a transmitted signal maseran acronym for microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation; an amplifier that works on the same principle as a laser and emits coherent microwave radiation gas masera maser in which microwave radiation interacts with gas molecules electronic equipment equipment that involves the controlled conduction of electrons (especially in a gas or vacuum or semiconductor) |
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