No, I was using "amplifier" in a slightly more general sense to mean "a circuit that uses power to turn a weakly driven signal into a strongly driven signal." Y

No, I was using "amplifier" in a slightly more general sense to mean "a circuit that uses power to turn a weakly driven signal into a strongly driven signal." You are absolutely correct that a SRAM cell would drive a near zero signal closer to zero and that this behavior differs from a linear amplifier which would drive a near zero signal further away from zero. Here was my conundrum: a more general term like "active circuit" risked leaving people behind while a more specific term like "buffer" or "driver" didn't highlight the analogy between SRAM and DRAM. I chose "amplifier" as a compromise, hoping that people who were familiar enough to worry about bistability would be comfortable with the generalized definition while people who barely hanging on would miss that detail entirely but still get my point. Sounds like I caught you in the middle. Sorry for the confusion.