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am⋅ple

  [am-puhl]
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–adjective, -pler, -plest.
1. fully sufficient or more than adequate for the purpose or needs; plentiful; enough: an ample supply of water; ample time to finish.
2. of sufficient or abundant measure; liberal; copious: an ample reward.
3. of adequate or more than adequate extent, size, or amount; large; spacious; roomy: ample storage space.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME < AF < L amplus wide, large

Related forms:
am⋅ple⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1. See plentiful. 2. generous, free, abounding, lavish, plenteous, overflowing. Ample, liberal, copious, profuse describe degrees of abundant provision. Ample implies a plentiful provision: to give ample praise. Liberal implies provision from a generous supply (more than ample but less than copious): Liberal amounts of food were distributed to the needy. Copious implies an apparently inexhaustible and lavish abundance: a copious flow of tears. Profuse implies a still more unrestrained abundance of provision or flow: profuse in his apologies. 3. extensive, vast, great, capacious.

Antonyms:
2. scanty, meager.
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am·ple   (ām'pəl)   
adj.   am·pler, am·plest

  1. Of large or great size, amount, extent, or capacity: an ample living room. See Synonyms at spacious.

    1. Large in degree, kind, or quantity: an ample reward.

    2. More than enough: ample evidence.

  3. Fully sufficient to meet a need or purpose: had ample food for the party. See Synonyms at plentiful.


[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin amplus.]
am'ple·ness n., am'ply (-plē) adv.
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Word Origin & History

ample 
1437, from M.Fr. ample, from L. amplus "large, spacious."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary

AMPLE language, music
A FORTH-like language for programming the 500/5000 series of add-on music synthesisers for the BBC Microcomputer. AMPLE was produced by Hybrid Technologies, Cambridge, England in the mid 1980s. Many AMPLE programs were published in Acorn User magazine.
(1995-11-01)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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