augmentation

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: aug=men=ta=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

augmentation, n. [LL. augmentatio: cf. F. augmentation.].

•  The act or process of augmenting, or making larger, by addition, expansion, or dilation; increase.  [1913 Webster]
•  The state of being augmented; enlargement.  [1913 Webster]
•  The thing added by way of enlargement.  [1913 Webster]
•  A additional charge to a coat of arms, given as a mark of honor.  Cussans.  [1913 Webster]
•  The stage of a disease in which the symptoms go on increasing.  Dunglison.  [1913 Webster]
•  In counterpoint and fugue, a repetition of the subject in tones of twice the original length.  [1913 Webster]

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.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

augmentation, n.
1 enlargement; growth; increase.
2 Mus. the lengthening of the time-values of notes in melodic parts.

Etymology

ME f. F f. LL augmentatio -onis f. augmentare (as AUGMENT)

THESAURUS

augmentation

accession, accretion, adjunct, annex, attachment, bonus, boot, complement, enhancement, enrichment, extra, fixture, increase, increment, plus, raise, reinforcement, rise

ROGET THESAURUS

augmentation

Increase

N increase, augmentation, enlargement, extension, dilatation, increment, accretion, accession, development, growth, aggrandizement, aggravation, rise, ascent, exaggeration exacerbation, spread, flood tide, gain, produce, product, profit, increased, on the increase, undiminished, additional, crescendo, vires acquirit eundo.

Adjunct

N adjunct, addition, additament, additum, affix, appelidage, annexe, annex, augment, augmentation, increment, reinforcement, supernumerary, accessory, item, garnish, sauce, accompaniment, adjective, addendum, complement, supplement, continuation, rider, offshoot, episode, side issue, corollary, piece, flap, lappet, skirt, embroidery, trappings, cortege, tail, suffix, wing, additional, alate, alated, winged, in addition.

Expansion

N expansion, increase of size, enlargement, extension, augmentation, amplification, ampliation, aggrandizement, spread, increment, growth, development, pullulation, swell, dilation, rarefaction, turgescence, turgidness, turgidity, dispansion, obesity, hydrocephalus, hydrophthalmus, dropsy, tumefaction, intumescence, swelling, tumor, diastole, distension, puffing, puffiness, inflation, pandiculation, dilatability, expansibility, germination, growth, upgrowth, accretion, budding, gemmation, overgrowth, overdistension, hypertrophy, tympany, bulb, plumper, superiority of size, big bang, Hubble constant, expanded larger, &c (large), swollen, expansive, wide open, wide spread, flabelliform, overgrown, exaggerated, bloated, fat, turgid, tumid, hypertrophied, dropsical, pot bellied, swag bellied, edematous, oedematous, obese, puffy, pursy, blowzy, bigswoln, distended, patulous, bulbous, full blown, full grown, full formed, big, abdominous, enchymatous, rhipidate, tumefacient, tumefying.