penguatan

Indonesian

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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pəŋuˈat̚an/
• Hyphenation: pê‧ngu‧at‧an

Noun

pênguatan (plural penguatan-penguatan, first-person possessive penguatanku, second-person possessive penguatanmu, third-person possessive penguatannya)

1. reinforcement
   1. the act, process, or state of reinforcing or being reinforced.
   2. (psychology) the process whereby a behavior with desirable consequences comes to be repeated.
2. intensification

   Synonym: intensifikasi

3. amplification

   Synonym: amplifikasi

   1. the act, or result of amplifying, enlarging, extending or adding.
   2. (linguistics) 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.
   3. (linguistics) a figure of speech that adds importance to increase its rhetorical effect.
   4. (computing, electronics, physics) the act, or result of independently increasing some quantity, especially voltage, power or current.
4. (Catholicism) confirmation: a ceremony of sealing and conscious acknowledgement of the faith in many Christian churches, typically around the ages of 14 to 18.

   Synonym: krisma

Derived terms

Further reading

• “penguatan” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.