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Oprah Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary

Better word for enlargement?

Hi,

I'm having a hard time finding the right words here. Can anyone help me see how I can reword the text in quotes below? Basically, I'm trying to say that a portion of a speech segment is looked at in more detail in another figure.

Fig. 1(a) illustrates the original speech patterns of a female speaker; Fig. 1(b) illustrates the scrambled speech produced by a typical frequency domain speech scrambler. Fig. 1(c) and Fig. 1(d) are "enlargements of the dashed areas" of Fig. 1(a) and Fig. 1(b), respectively.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
  

Top answer

Hi, There's really nothing wrong with the words you have. How about ' . .

— Clive

  • Hi, There's really nothing wrong with the words you have.
  • How about ' .
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  • zoom in on .
  • ' if you want to be a bit more slangy?
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Hi,

There's really nothing wrong with the words you have.

How about ' . . . zoom in on . . .' if you want to be a bit more slangy?

Best wishes, Clive
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Thanks, Clive. If there's nothing wrong with it, then I will leave it as it is. Don't want to use slang because this is an academic paper.
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How about 'magnification' ? 'Exaggeration' may also be used in some context.

Arthur
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amplification?
stretching?
magnifying?
no more xed my mind.

inchoate
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Amplification is better, I think.
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I think for images the original is the best, from the above ...
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Would "a blow up of the dashed areas..." be appropriate?
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