ampli-, ampl-

1. To make larger or more powerful; to increase.
2. To add to, as with illustrations; to make complete.
3. To exaggerate.
4. To amplify an electrical signal.

It is more important to reign the empire well than to increase it.

Motto of King Rudolf of Habsburg, Germany (1273-1291).

1. An electronic circuit or device that detects and strengthens weak signals, as from a radio receiver, for subsequent, more powerful amplification stages.
2. An amplifying circuit; for example, as in a radio or television, that is designed to strengthen very weak signals and then transmit them to a more powerful amplifier.