Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Amplification

Amplification ({not transcribed}) , noun

[Latin amplificatio.]

1.
The act of amplifying or enlarging in dimensions; enlargement; extension.
2.
(Rhetoric) The enlarging of a simple statement by particularity of description, the use of epithets, etc., for rhetorical effect; diffuse narrative or description, or a dilating upon all the particulars of a subject.
Exaggeration is a species of amplification. — Brande & C
I shall summarily, without any amplification at all, show in what manner defects have been supplied. — Sir J. Davies
3.
The matter by which a statement is amplified; as, the subject was presented without amplifications.