"underamplify" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1933, Keith Henney, The Radio Engineering Handbook, page 286",
          "text": "In general, there is a tendency to underamplify the extreme ends of the musical scale and to overamplify certain particular frequencies below the middle, such as originate from acoustic resonance.",
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          "ref": "2006, Patricia Spencer, Advances in the Spoken-Language Development of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children",
          "text": "Physiological thresholds can differ from behavioral thresholds by ±15–20 dB HL. Thus, without verification of behavioral responses with amplification, hearing aids may underamplify or overamplify.",
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          "ref": "2014, Michael J. Metz, Sandlin's Textbook of Hearing Aid Amplification",
          "text": "What is interesting to note here is that the 2⁄3 gain can be seen to overamplify over the curved line of the impaired ear more than underamplifies, whereas the 1⁄3 gain curve illustrates the opposite, where it tends to underamplify sound to the ear.",
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        "To provide insufficient amplification."
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  "word": "underamplify"
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  "etymology_text": "under- + amplify",
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