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amp

noun

  1. electronic circuit or component that increases the level of incoming electrical signal
  2. SI unit of electric current
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈæmp/ / [ˈæmp] / /ˈeə̯mp/

name

  1. Abbreviation of Amplified Bible.

noun

  1. Initialism of adenosine monophosphate.
  2. Initialism of antimicrobial peptide.
  3. 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.

  4. Initialism of Asian massage parlor.

verb

  1. To amplify.

    He asked the disk jockey to amp it up.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

    2014, Andy Paul, Amp Up Your Sales, AMACOM Books

  4. To connect to amplifiers.

    and even the Velvet Underground were still only amping up conventional instruments