amp
/ˈæmp/US/ˈeə̯mp/
amp is the clipping of ampere.
amp is the clipping of amplifier.
amp is the clipping of ampoule.
amp is the clipping of amputee.
amp is the clipping of amphetamine.
amp is the clipping of ampicillin.
Verb
amp (third-person singular simple present amps, present participle amping, simple past and past participle amped)
- To amplify.
- He asked the disk jockey to amp it up.
- To excite.
- Well you're very amped up today, what's got you so excited?
- In the distance, the music thumped, amping the crowd higher.2012, Natalie Anderson, First Time Lucky?, page 78
- To intensify or increase.
- Amping the Justin Timberlake cameos and revving up Jiggytron 5000, these Peas want to be on Middle America's fickle plate — losing little dread-whippin' imaginativeness in the wizzash.2003, CMJ New Music Monthly, number 115, page 42
- 2014, Andy Paul, Amp Up Your Sales, AMACOM Books
- To connect to amplifiers.
- and even the Velvet Underground were still only amping up conventional instruments2015, Kris Needs, Suicide: Dream Baby Dream, A New York City Story
Meaning of ampere
Noun
ampere (plural amperes)
- A unit of electrical current, the standard base unit in the International System of Units; colloquially amp. Abbreviation: amp, Symbol: A
- Definition: The ampere, symbol A, is the SI unit of electric current. It is defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the elementary charge e to be 1.602 176 634 x 10⁻¹⁹ when expressed in the unit C, which is equal to A s, where the second is defined in terms of Δν_(Cs). (The International...
Meaning of amplifier
Noun
amplifier (plural amplifiers)
- Anything that amplifies, or makes something larger or more intense.
- The football team is not an extension of Iran’s leaders, but is in fact the opposite, seen as an amplifier for freedom, group expression, modernity.2022 November 21, Barney Ronay, “Iran’s brave and powerful gesture is a small wonder from a World Cup of woe”, in The Guardian
- An adverb that adds intensity, such as "really" or "totally".
- An appliance or circuit that increases the strength of a weak electrical signal without changing the other characteristics of the signal.
- A portable encasement that houses a large speaker, used to amplify voices and musical instruments at live performances.
- A lens that enlarges the field of vision.
Noun capitalized: AMP
AMP (countable and uncountable, plural AMPs)
- Initialism of adenosine monophosphate.
- Initialism of antimicrobial peptide.
- Initialism of accelerated mobile page.
- That strict nature of the AMP HTML means that attention to detail is necessary. The pages must be properly validated in order to function every time — and in order to amp up your place in Google's rankings, your AMP site must function every time.2019, Richard Conway, How to Get to the Top of Google Search: A Practical SEO Guide, Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited, →ISBN
- Initialism of Asian massage parlor.
Proper noun capitalized: AMP
AMP
- Abbreviation of Amplified Bible.
Forms of amp
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | amps |
| plural | AMPs |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | amps |
| present participle | amping |
| past participle | amped |
| past | amped |
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: amp (page history and authors); AMP (page history and authors); ampere (page history and authors); amplifier (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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