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augment::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | increase |
| Derivation | augmentation, augmentative |
The recent speech of the president augmented tensions in the Near East.
Examples of augment
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Virtual mirror technology also means those 3D wall screens augment your reality.
From the nzherald.co.nz
These two new instances augment Amazon's large range of existing instance types.
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Pohl wrote many stories himself, to fill the magazine and to augment his salary.
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The instructions encouraged me to use a search engine to augment my brainpower.
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Instead, they're happy to use location to augment their own reality-based game.
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What better mode of transportation could be created that would augment the Metro?
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Existing lawyers might seek to augment their skills with a Masters qualification.
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So I want to try this again but using additional words to augment the pictures.
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Now the time has come for Ferguson to augment his squad with attacking options.
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- Enlarge or increase; "The recent speech of the president augmented tensions in the Near East"
- Grow or intensify; "The pressure augmented"
- (augmented) added to or made greater in amount or number or strength; "his augmented renown"; "a greatly augmented collection of books"
- In linguistics, the augment is a syllable added to the beginning of the word in certain Indo-European languages, most notably Greek, Armenian, and the Indo-Iranian languages such as Sanskrit, to form the past tenses.
- "The Augments" is the name of the 82nd episode from the television series ''''. It is the sixth episode from the fourth season of the series. "The Augments" initially aired on November 12, 2004, on the American television network UPN.
- (Augmented (music)) In music and music theory augmentation (from Late Latin augmentare, to increase) is the lengthening or widening of rhythms, melodies, intervals or chords. The opposite is diminution (as in "a diminished triad").
- To increase; to make larger or supplement; To grow; to increase; to become greater; To slow the tempo or meter, e.g. for a dramatic or stately passage; To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone)
- (augmented) increased in number, amount or strength; raised in pitch by a semitone
- (Augmented) The quality of a chord having its intervals as the 1st, 3rd and sharp 5th notes of the major scale.
