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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Amplifier \Am"pli*fi'er\, noun One who or that which amplifies.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

amplifier

noun: electronic equipment that increases strength of signals passing through it

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

46 Moby Thesaurus words for "amplifier": attenuator, audio-frequency tube, ballast regulator, ballast tube, beam-switching tube, convertor, current regulator, damper, detector, discriminator, doubler, ear trumpet, electronic hearing aid, focus tube, generator, hard-of-hearing aid, hearing aid, iconoscope, inverter, limiter, local-oscillator tube, megaphone, mixer tube, modulator, multiplier, multipurpose tube, multivibrator, oscillator, output tube, phase inverter, picture tube, power tube, preamp, preamplifier, pulse generator, radio-frequency tube, receiving tube, rectifier tube, regulator, repeater, speaking trumpet, stethoscope, transducer, transistor hearing aid, trigger tube, vacuum-tube hearing aid

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