augmentation
Meanings
Plural: augmentations
Noun
- the amount by which something increases
- the statement of a theme in notes of greater duration (usually twice the length of the original)
- the act of augmenting
- The act or process of augmenting.
- An addition or extra, something that is added to something else.
- A particular mark of honour, granted by the sovereign in consideration of some noble action, or by favour; and either quartered with the family arms, or on an escutcheon or canton.
- A surgical procedure to enlarge a body part, as breast augmentation.
- The stage of a disease during which symptoms increase or continue.
- A compositional technique where the composer lengthens the melody by lengthening its note values.
- An increase of stipend obtained by a parish minister by an action raised in the Court of Teinds against the titular and heritors.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English augmentation, augmentacion, augmentacioun, from Old French augmentacion, from Latin augmentātiō, verbal noun from augmentō (“increase”, verb).
Synonyms
accretion, augmentation, elevation, enlargement, expansion, extension, increase, increment, promotion
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 15
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