ampliation
Enlargement; amplification.
A postponement of the decision of a cause for further consideration or reargument.

ampliations
plural of ampliation

amplicant
A factor that amplifies a response.

amplication
Misspelling of amplification.

amplicon
A piece of DNA or RNA formed as the product of natural or artificial amplification events, as in a polymerase chain reaction

amplicons
plural of amplicon

amplidyne
A form of electromechanical amplifier in which an AC motor drives a DC generator

amplidynes
plural of amplidyne

amplifiabilities
plural of amplifiability

amplifiability
Quality or degree of being amplifiable

amplification
The act, or result of amplifying, enlarging, extending or adding.
The act, or result of independently increasing some quantity, especially voltage, power or current.
Gain.
The using of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for isolating and exponentially amplifying a fragment or sequence of DNA.
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).
A translation technique that involves adding content that is not present in the source text to the target text, usually to improve the fluency of the translation.

amplifications
plural of amplification

amplificon
The result of gene amplification (by using LAMP)

amplificons
plural of amplificon

amplimer
A piece of DNA formed as the products of natural or artificial amplification events, as in a polymerase chain reaction.

amplimers
plural of amplimer

amplitopicity
The condition of being amplitopic

amplitron
A form of microwave amplifier.

amplitrons
plural of amplitron

amplitudeology
A field of quantum physics, that studies scattering amplitudes of quantum particles, and applying mathematical periods to simplifying the summation of Feynman diagrams

amplituhedra
plural of amplituhedron

amplituhedron
A mathematical structure which encodes the integrand of an amplitude in planar N=4 super Yang-Mills theory, used in calculations of scattering amplitudes of particle interactions.

amplituhedrons
plural of amplituhedron

ampullectomies
plural of ampullectomy

ampullectomy
Excision of an ampulla, typically of the ampulla of Vater.

ampullula
A small ampulla

amputation
surgical removal of all or part of a limb, etc.
the loss of a limb, etc. through trauma

amputations
plural of amputation

amputeeism
The condition of being an amputee.

amshom
Part of a taluk; a subdistrict.

amshoms
plural of amshom

amu
Abbreviation of atomic mass unit.

amud
The lectern on the bima.

amulet
A religious article, protective charm, or ornament, usually bearing cultural or magical symbols, worn for protection against ill will, negative influences, or evil spirits.

amulets
plural of amulet

amulette
Obsolete form of amulet.

amulettes
plural of amulette

amurca
The sediment in olive oil.

amurcas
plural of amurca

amus
plural of amu

amusedness
The quality of being amused; amusement.

amusement
Entertainment.
An activity that is entertaining or amusing, such as dancing, gunning, or fishing.

amusements
plural of amusement

amusingness
The state or quality of being amusing.

amusiveness
The state or quality of being amusive.

amyelination
The lack of, or the failure to form, a myelin sheath

amyelinations
plural of amyelination

amygdale
An almond-shaped inclusion in igneous rock or lava

amylogen
The water-soluble part of granulose.

amylogenesis
The formation of starch.

amylohydrolysis
The transformation of starch by hydrolysis.

amyloidicity
The condition of being amyloid

amyloidity
The condition of being amyloid

amyloidogenecity
Misspelling of amyloidogenicity.

amyloidogenesis
The production of amyloid

amyloidogenicity
The property of being amyloidogenic.

amyloidopathies
plural of amyloidopathy

amyloidopathy
The presence of amyloid peptide plaques in the brain

amyloplast
A specialized leucoplast responsible for the storage of amylopectin through the polymerization of glucose.

amyloplasts
plural of amyloplast

amylosome
A globular association of amylase.

amyluria
A condition in which starch is found in the urine.

amyotonia
Lack of normal muscular tension or tonus, especially when congenital.

amyotonias
plural of amyotonia

amyxorrhea
Absence of the normal mucous secretion.

anabasii
plural of anabasius

anabasius
A kind of courier who travelled on horseback or in a chariot, conveying messages and commands.

anabelioid
An anabelian category or similar structure

anabelioids
plural of anabelioid

anabioses
plural of anabiosis

anabiosis
A state of suspended animation, especially during extreme drought; the act of recovering from this state.

anabolism
The constructive metabolism of the body, as distinguished from catabolism.

anabolisms
plural of anabolism

anacamptics
The science of reflection of light or sound

anachronies
plural of anachrony

anachronism
A chronological mistake; the erroneous dating of an event, circumstance, or object.
A person or thing which seems to belong to a different time or period of time.
The aberrant projection of the present onto the past.

anachronisms
plural of anachronism

anachrony
Synonym of anachronism.

anaclastics
The part of optics that deals with the refraction of light.

anacline
The part of a shell in which the interarea is at an angle of less than 90° to the plane of commissure

anaclines
plural of anacline

anaclitism
The pattern of deriving adult sexual arousal from objects that one was exposed to as an infant. The fetish value often stems from tactile stimulation similar to that experienced by the infant before it could see well.
In Freudian theory, the relation between bodily functions in early childhood and the later development of the sexual instinct. The infant's bodily function of simple hunger, to take a primary example, is at first attached solely to the act of suckling at mother's breast.

anaclitisms
plural of anaclitism

anacolouth
Alternative spelling of anacoluth.

anacoloutha
plural of anacolouthon

anacolouthon
Alternative spelling of anacoluthon.

anacolouthons
plural of anacolouthon
Alternative spelling of anacoluthons.

anacolouths
plural of anacolouth

anacoluth
Synonym of anacoluthon.

anacolutha
plural of anacoluthon

anacoluthon
A sentence or clause that is grammatically inconsistent, especially with respect to the type of clausal or phrasal complement for the initial clause.
Intentional use of such a structure.

anacoluthons
plural of anacoluthon

anacoluths
plural of anacoluth

anacrises
plural of anacrisis

anacrisis
A stage of the Ancient Greek judicial process in which all of the evidence is produced prior to the trial.
An interrogation that provokes its subject to make explicit his or her underlying assumptions and deeply held values.
A dialog or plot event that causes a character to reveal his or her beliefs and motivations.

anacyclosis
A cyclical theory of political evolution.

anadiploses
plural of anadiplosis

anadiplosis
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase used at the end of a clause or expression is repeated near the beginning of the next clause or expression.

anadrome
A word which forms a different word when spelled backwards.
An anadromous fish.

anadromes
plural of anadrome

anaerobicity
The state of being anaerobic

anaerobism
The property of being anaerobic.

anaesthesiometry
Alternative form of anesthesiometry.

anaesthesis
loss of feeling; insensibility

anaesthetics
plural of anaesthetic

anaesthetisation
Alternative form of anesthetization.

anaesthetisations
plural of anaesthetisation

anaesthetization
The act of anesthetizing

anaesthetizations
plural of anaesthetization

anafront
A warm or cold front at which there is upward movement of the warm-sector air above the cold-sector air, commonly producing clouds and precipitation on the cool side of the boundary.

anafronts
plural of anafront