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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Augment \Aug*ment"\, v. i. To increase; to grow larger, stronger, or more intense; as, a stream augments by rain.
Augment \Aug*ment"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Augmented; p. pr. & vb. n. Augmenting.] [L. augmentare, fr. augmentum an increase, fr. augere to increase; perh. akin to Gr. ?, ?, E. wax, v., and eke, v.: cf. F. augmenter.]
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To enlarge or increase in size, amount, or degree; to swell; to make bigger; as, to augment an army by re["e]forcements; rain augments a stream; impatience augments an evil.
But their spite still serves His glory to augment.
--Milton. (Gram.) To add an augment to.
Augment \Aug"ment\, n. [L. augmentum: cf. F. augment.]
Enlargement by addition; increase.
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(Gram.) A vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs.
Note: In Greek, the syllabic augment is a prefixed ?, forming an intial syllable; the temporal augment is an increase of the quantity (time) of an initial vowel, as by changing ? to ?.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, from Old French augmenter "increase, enhance" (14c.), from Late Latin augmentare "to increase," from Latin augmentum "an increase," from augere "to increase, make big, enlarge, enrich," from PIE root *aug- (1) "to increase" (cognates: Sanskrit ojas- "strength;" Lithuanian augu "to grow," aukstas "high, of superior rank;" Greek auxo "increase," auxein "to increase;" Gothic aukan "to grow, increase;" Old English eacien "to increase"). Related: Augmented; augmenting. As a noun from early 15c.
Wiktionary
n. (context grammar English) In some Indo-European languages, a prefix ''e-'' (''a-'' in Sanskrit) indicating a past tense of a verb. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To increase; to make large or supplement. 2 (context intransitive reflexive English) To grow; to increase; to become greater. 3 (context music English) To slow the tempo or meter, e.g. for a dramatic or stately passage. 4 (context music English) To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone). 5 (context grammar transitive English) To add an augment to.
WordNet
v. enlarge or increase; "The recent speech of the PLO chairman augmented tensions in the Near East"
grow or intensify; "The pressure augmented"
Wikipedia
In linguistics, the augment is a syllable added to the beginning of the word in certain Indo-European languages, most notably Greek, Armenian and Indo-Iranian languages such as Sanskrit, to form the past tenses.
Augment is a company which has created a mobile app of the same name, used to visualize 3D models in Augmented Reality. The company is based in Paris, France and was founded in October 2011 by Jean-François Chianetta, Cyril Champier and Mickaël Jordan.
Augment lets businesses and 3D professionals visualize projects in their actual size and environment, on iPhone, iPad and Android, using the power of Augmented Reality. Users can print the Augment tracker or create their own tracker to place the 3D model in space and at scale in real time. Common uses of the technology include product presentations and interactive print campaigns.
Augment or augmentation may refer to:
- Augment (linguistics), a syllable added to the beginning of the word in certain Indo-European languages
- Augmentation (heraldry), heraldic modifications
- Augmentation (music), the musical technique of lengthening or widening of rhythm or interval
- Augmentation (obstetrics), the process by which the first &/or second stages of an already established labour is accelerated or potentiated by deliberate and artificial means
- Augmentation (pharmacology), the combination of two or more drugs to achieve better treatment results
- Augmentation ideal, in mathematics, an ideal in a group ring
- Breast augmentation, the breast implant and fat-graft mammoplasty procedures for correcting or enhancing breasts
- Synaptic augmentation, a form of short term synaptic plasticity
- Augmented cognition, a research field that aims at creating revolutionary human-computer interactions
- Augmented matrix, in mathematics, a matrix formed by placing two other matrices side-by-side
- Augmentation (geometry)
- Augmentation (algebra), a certain algebra homomorphism
- Augmented reality, a live view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements are augmented by computer-generated sensory input
- Augment, a company which has created a mobile of the same name, used to visualize 3D models in augmented reality
- Augment (Tymshare), a hypertext system derived from Douglas Engelbart's oN-Line System, renamed "Augment" by Tymshare
- Nanobiotechnology augmentations, a feature in the computer game Deus Ex
- Prosthetic augmentations, a key feature in the computer game Deus Ex: Human Revolution
- Augments (Star Trek), genetically enhanced humans, in the Star Trek franchise
- Transhumans in David Brin's post-apocalyptic novel The Postman
Usage examples of "augment".
So advertisers will use cable to augment a marketing program, not as a primary means of producing results.
It is very necessary to discriminate between these diseases, as the appropriate remedies of the latter will often only aggravate and augment the former.
About the end of July 1805 the embarrassment which sometime before had begun to be felt in the finances of Europe was alarmingly augmented.
Gordon glanced quickly at Charles Bezoar, standing beyond the two augments.
That though Lucie had sufficiently strangled herself as to induce a kind of catalepsy, she was not dead, and did not die until the injury of a mainly collapsed windpipe was augmented by the disadvantages of the grave.
Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented.
Under the operation of that policy that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented.
Under the operation of this policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented.
Under the operation of that policy that agitation has not only not ceased but has constantly augmented.
Under the operation of the policy that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented.
Yet under the operation of that policy this agitation has not only not ceased, but it has been constantly augmented.
The bathroom, added to the house in the 1920s, had some insulation, which Cig and Blackie had augmented in the 1980s.
The pain was augmented during deglutition, and almost immediately afterward he commenced to expectorate great quantities of blood.
Further than this, these arrivals, by their evident unfitness for any allowable mortal use, and inferential diabolicalness, filled the neighbourhood with a vague horror and lively curiosity, which were greatly augmented by the extraordinary phenomena, and still more extraordinary accounts thereof, that followed their reception in the Manse.
I answered gravely that I did not want the money, and that I had augmented the first flagon only for the sake of procuring him an agreeable surprise.