Augmentation
[ɔːgmen'teɪʃ(ə)n] or [,ɔgmɛn'teʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the act of augmenting.
(noun.) the statement of a theme in notes of greater duration (usually twice the length of the original).
(noun.) the amount by which something increases.
Typist: Merritt--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act or process of augmenting, or making larger, by addition, expansion, or dilation; increase.
(n.) The state of being augmented; enlargement.
(n.) The thing added by way of enlargement.
(n.) A additional charge to a coat of arms, given as a mark of honor.
(n.) The stage of a disease in which the symptoms go on increasing.
(n.) In counterpoint and fugue, a repetition of the subject in tones of twice the original length.
Checker: Marge
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Increase, enlargement, extension, addition, accession.
Editor: Olaf
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Increase, enlargement, amplification, enrichment, supply, enhancement,addition, acquisition, improvement
ANT:Deduction, detraction, diminution, contraction, withdrawal, reservation,expenditure, loss, waste, detriment, deterioration, impoverishment, reduction,curtailment
Checked by Adrienne
Examples
- An augmentation of fortune is the means by which the greater part of men propose and wish to better their condition. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- When the lease comes to be renewed, however, the landlord commonly demands the same augmentation of rent as if they had been all made by his own. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Volumnia's pet little scream acquires a considerable augmentation of reality from this surprise, and the house is quickly in commotion. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- An augmentation, or a direct raising of the denomination of the coin, always is, and from its nature must be, an open and avowed operation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It was a great augmentation of my uneasiness to be bereaved, at this eventful crisis, of the inestimable services of Miss Mills. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Both operations are unjuSt. But a simple augmentation is an injustice of open violence; whereas an adulteration is an injustice of treacherous fraud. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- She compromised on an augmentation of her territory, twenty million dollars' indemnity in money, and peace. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Mr. Weston was chatty and convivial, and no friend to early separations of any sort; but at last the drawing-room party did receive an augmentation. Jane Austen. Emma.
- She, who so gloried in my fame, and so looked forward to its augmentation, well knew that I would labour on. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- This tax was afterwards repealed, and in the room of it was established the window-tax, which has undergone two several alterations and augmentations. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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