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Augmented

[v. awg-ment; n. awg-ment]

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verb (used with object)

to make larger; enlarge in size, number, strength, or extent; increase: His salary is augmented by a small inheritance.

Music.

to raise (the upper note of an interval or chord) by a half step.

to double the note values of (a theme): In the fugue's development the subject is augmented.

Grammar. to add an augment to.

Heraldry. to grant an augmentation to (a coat of arms).

verb (used without object)

to become larger.

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noun

Grammar. a prefixed vowel or a lengthening of the initial vowel that characterizes certain forms in the nonpresent inflection of verbs in Greek, Sanskrit, Armenian, and Phrygian.

Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English au(g)menten < Anglo-French, Middle French au(g)menter < Late Latin augmentāre to increase, derivative of augmentum an increase (aug(ēre) to increase (akin to eke) + -mentum -ment) + -ā- thematic vowel + -re infinitive ending

Related forms

aug·ment·a·ble, adjective

un·aug·ment·a·ble, adjective

un·aug·ment·ed, adjective

Synonyms
1. swell. See increase. 5. increase.

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The app itself allows visitors to view three-dimensional models using a technology called augmented reality.

Augmented cognition could also find its way into work, too.

Nothing short of an augmented reality world that you can interact with.

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The app itself allows visitors to view three-dimensional models using a technology called augmented reality.

Augmented cognition could also find its way into work, too.

Nothing short of an augmented reality world that you can interact with.

Much of the maintenance is augmented by retired volunteers.

We seem to have rather a growing number of augmented reality browsers.

Penney is using a new augmented reality online shopping application to sell fall back-to-school clothing to teenage girls.

I've used other augmented reality apps for the iPhone, and there is a sense of the bizarre.

The best new thing to hit smartphones is augmented reality.

Oil money and government or government-controlled jobs, augmented by lower labor costs.

It uses an approach known as augmented reality, overlaying subway line symbols on a live view through the phone's camera.

As hoped, this compound augmented the potency of antibiotics in mice infected with this pathogen.

The number of the refugees is continually augmented by new arrivals.

Use it in fact to sell an augmented product and you'll find willing takers.

Interactive feature on how virtually all parts of the body can be fixed, augmented or replaced.

The company says-as do many others-that human capital, augmented by technology, stands at the centre of its business.

My studies have been augmented with an on-demand orchestral repertory course that is offered on an as-needed basis.

General country information is augmented by historical, regional, and tourist information sections.

Psychologists have started testing augmented reality as an enhanced form of virtual reality.

And it's so flexible that it can be augmented in countless ways.

Points so donated are augmented by an equal number from the masters of the game.

They augmented the national security bureaucracy but spent the bulk of their energies expanding bureaucracies in domestic spheres.

Witney augmented this effect by undercranking the camera slightly.

Every part of the human body is now being studied to see how it can be replicated artificially or augmented in some way.

Flour can be augmented with or even replaced by bread crumbs.

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augmented (ɔːɡˈmɛntɪd)

—*adj*
1.	music Compare diminished (of an interval) increased or expanded from the state of being perfect or major by the raising of the higher note or the dropping of the lower note by one semitone: C to G is a perfect fifth, but C to G sharp is an augmented fifth
2.	music
	a. denoting a chord based upon an augmented triad: an augmented seventh chord
	b. denoting a triad consisting of the root plus a major third and an augmented fifth
	c. (postpositive) (esp in jazz) denoting a chord having as its root the note specified: D augmented
3.	having been increased, esp in number: an augmented orchestra

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Word Origin & History

augment

c.1400, from O.Fr. augmenter (14c.), from L.L. augmentare "to increase," from L. augmentum "an increase," from augere "to increase, make big, enlarge, enrich," from PIE base *aug- "to increase" (cf. Skt. ojas- "strength;" Lith. augu "to grow," aukstas "high, of superior rank;" Gk. auxo "increase," auxein

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"to increase;" Goth. aukan "to grow, increase;" O.E. eacien "to increase").

augmented

pp. adj. from augment, c.1600. Musical sense is attested from 1825.

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