Operational amplifier

An operational amplifier (OP amplifier/OP amp) is a high gain-voltage or high differential amplifier that amplifies the difference of 2 input voltages of high-impedance resulting in 1 output of low-impedance (unlike normal amplifiers, which have 1 input), since its voltage gain is infinite while the output impedance is zero and the input impedance is infinite. It's used for many analog functions (signal conditioning, filtering, math operations; addition, integration).