ampliation
English
Etymology
Latin ampliatio: compare French ampliation. Doublet of ampliatio.
Noun
ampliation (countable and uncountable, plural ampliations)
- enlargement; amplification
- (law, civil law) A postponement of the decision of a cause for further consideration or reargument.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ampliation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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French
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Further reading
- “ampliation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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