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penguatan

Pronunciation: /pəŋuˈat̚an/

“penguatan” is an Indonesian word. Its 8 meanings in English:

noun

  1. the act, process, or state of reinforcing or being reinforced
  2. the process whereby a behavior with desirable consequences comes to be repeated
  3. intensification
  4. the act, or result of amplifying, enlarging, extending or adding
  5. a translation technique that involves adding content that is not present in the source text to the target text, usually to improve the fluency of the translation
  6. a figure of speech that adds importance to increase its rhetorical effect
  7. the act, or result of independently increasing some quantity, especially voltage, power or current
  8. confirmation: a ceremony of sealing and conscious acknowledgement of the faith in many Christian churches, typically around the ages of 14 to 18

Etymology

Affixed kuat + peng- -an. * The confirmation sense is a semantic loan from Latin confirmatio, noun of process from cōnfirmātus (“confirmed”), perfect passive participle of cōnfirmāre, from con- (“with”) + firmāre (“to firm or strengthen”).

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