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Augmentation

Augmentation \Aug`men*ta"tion\, n. [LL. augmentatio: cf. F. augmentation.]

  1. The act or process of augmenting, or making larger, by addition, expansion, or dilation; increase.

  2. The state of being augmented; enlargement.

  3. The thing added by way of enlargement.

  4. (Her.) A additional charge to a coat of arms, given as a mark of honor.
    --Cussans.

  5. (Med.) The stage of a disease in which the symptoms go on increasing.
    --Dunglison.

  6. (Mus.) In counterpoint and fugue, a repetition of the subject in tones of twice the original length.

    Augmentation court (Eng. Hist.), a court erected by Stat. 27 Hen. VIII., to augment the revenues of the crown by the suppression of monasteries. It was long ago dissolved.
    --Encyc. Brit.

    Syn: Increase; enlargement; growth; extension; accession; addition.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
augmentation

mid-15c., "act of making greater," from Old French augmentacion "increase," from Late Latin augmentationem (nominative augmentatio), noun of action from past participle stem of augmentare (see augment). Meaning "amount by which something is increased" is from 1520s. Musical sense is from 1590s.

Wiktionary
augmentation

n. 1 The act or process of augmenting. 2 (context heraldry English) 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. 3 (context medicine English) A surgical procedure to enlarge a body part, as breast augmentation. 4 (context medicine English) The stage of a disease during which symptoms increase or continue. 5 (context music English) a compose technique where the composer lengthens the melody by multiplying the length of each note by the same number

WordNet
augmentation
  1. n. the amount by which something increases

  2. the statement of a theme in notes of greater duration (usually twice the length of the original) [ant: diminution]

  3. the act of augmenting

Wikipedia
Augmentation (music)

In Western music and music theory, the word augmentation (from Late Latin augmentare, to increase) has three distinct meanings. Augmentation is a compositional device where a melody, theme or motif is presented in longer note-values than were previously used. Augmentation is also the term for the proportional lengthening of the value of individual note-shapes in older notation by coloration, by use of a sign of proportion, or by a notational symbol such as the modern dot. A major or perfect interval that is widened by a chromatic semitone is an augmented interval, and the process may be called augmentation.

Augmentation (pharmacology)

Augmentation, in the context of the pharmacological management of Psychiatry, refers to the combination of two or more drugs to achieve better treatment results. Examples of use include:

  • Prescribing an atypical antipsychotic when someone is already taking a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor for the treatment of depression.
  • Prescribing estrogen for someone already being treated with antipsychotics for the management of Schizophrenia.
  • Giving an adenosine A2A receptor antagonist on top of existing treatment for Parkinson's disease. Note that this is not in the field of Psychiatry.

In other field of Pharmacology, the term is occasionally used to describe treatments that increase (augment) the concentration of some substance in the body. This might be done when someone is deficient in a hormone, enzyme or other endogenous substance. For example:

  • To give α1 antitrypsin to someone who is deficient in α1 antitrypsin.
Augmentation (algebra)

In algebra, an augmentation of an associative algebra A over a commutative ring k is a k- algebra homomorphism A → k, typically denoted by ε. An algebra together with an augmentation is called an augmented algebra. The kernel of the augmentation is a two-sided ideal called the augmentation ideal of A.

For example, if A = k[G] is the group algebra of a group G, then


A → k,  ∑ax ↦ ∑a
is an augmentation.

If A is a graded algebra which is connected, i.e. A = k, then the homomorphism A → k which maps an element to its homogeneous component of degree 0 is an augmentation. For example,


k[x] → k, ∑ax ↦ a
is an augmentation.

Usage examples of "augmentation".

Some Family members, led by Rikart Neumann and Acton van Reuter, had apparently agreed to throw their support behind the Laum in exchange for augmentation technology.

Lord Wharncliffe then moved that the produce of tax imposed upon the clergy should be appropriated to the augmentation of small livings, and that the commissioners should not have power to apply it to other purposes for which parish cess was levied.

A ropy mass of neurons, interlaced with augmentations of my jugular vein and my two carotid arteries, extended from beneath my orphaned medulla and stretched across four feet of empty space before disappearing into my reopened fontanel, the whole arrangement shielded from microbial contamination by a flexible plastic tube.

You must agree that the quality is injured, because it is no longer susceptible of further augmentation.

Heather quietly entered an exclusive West Hollywood surgical clinic and underwent a breast augmentation, a blepharoplasty, a rhinoplasty, a complete rhytidectomy, a chin implant, and suction lipectomies of the thighs, abdomen, and buttocks.

One of the most unselfish and simple-hearted of men, he brought up a large family upon a small stipend, refusing for a long time to ask an augmentation from the Tiend Court, until his scruples were overborne by the pressing entreaties of his heritors.

I had given by the precentor notice to every widow in the parish that was in need, to come to the manse and she would receive her portion of the partitioning of the augmentation.

The experiment in protoplast augmentation that she had begun three seasons back under the guidance of the government agricultural agent was reaching its culmination now.

It was, he said, something called protoplast augmentation, which involved using enzymes to digest the cell walls of plants to give access to the genetic material within.

Heather quietly entered an exclusive West Hollywood surgical clinic and underwent a breast augmentation, a blepharoplasty, a rhinoplasty, a complete rhytidectomy, a chin implant, and suction lipectomies of the thighs, abdomen, and buttocks.

It was in the Martinmas quarter of this year that I got the first payment of my augmentation.

However these infiltrations went deeper than ordinary augmentation circuitry, seeking out the memory centres to mate with neurofibrillae inside their clustered cells.

A strange case is reported in a girl of fourteen, who lost her tympanum from a profuse otorrhea, and who substituted an artificial tympanum which was, in its turn, lost by deep penetration, causing augmentation of the symptoms, of the cause of which the patient herself seemed unaware.

Lord Wharncliffe then moved that the produce of tax imposed upon the clergy should be appropriated to the augmentation of small livings, and that the commissioners should not have power to apply it to other purposes for which parish cess was levied.

By the same token, musical augmentations of tension and their release, as well as the resolution of chord progressions, find analogues in corporeal stresses and their relief, i.