signal boost

noun

an instance of sharing or disseminating another's information or material with one's own audience

“Thanks for the signal boost on my crowdfunding campaign!”

Meanings

nounsignal boost (plural signal boosts)

plural signal boosts

  1. an instance of sharing or disseminating another's information or material with one's own audience

    Thanks for the signal boost on my crowdfunding campaign!

  2. engineeringan increase in the capacity, strength, or range of a signal

    Taking advantage of acoustical resonances results in a signal boost and enables highly sensitive analyzers with low detection limits.

    2012, M. Wolff with B. Kost and B. Baumann, “Shape-Optimized Photoacoustic Cell: Numerical Consolidation and Experimental Confirmation”, in International Journal of Thermophysics, volume 33, numbers 10-11, →DOI, page 1953
verbsignal boost (third-person singular simple present signal boosts, present participle signal boosting, simple past and past participle signal boosted)

present singular third person signal boosts · participle present signal boosting · participle past signal boosted · past signal boosted

  1. to share or disseminate another's information or material with one's own audience

    On her blog, Mel tries to signal boost every petition for legalizing sex robots that she comes across.

    1 more example

    Since the mainstream media anoints only a few scholars as thought leaders or public intellectuals, the work of some marginalized scholars remains underappreciated. In order to combat this, I signal boost the work of black academics on social media.

    2017, Nyasha Junior, “The Scholarly Network”, in Journal of Biblical Literature, volume 136, number 1, →DOI, page 126
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