Grammar. pertaining to or productive of a form denoting increased size or intensity. In Spanish the augmentative suffix-ón is added to a word (as silla “chair”) to indicate increased size, as in sillón “armchair.”
a symbol (∼) indicating equivalency or similarity between two values.
a short oblique stroke (/) between two words indicating that whichever is appropriate may be chosen to complete the sense of the text in which they occur:
a. denoting an affix that may be added to a word to convey the meaning large or great; for example, the suffix -ote in Spanish, where hombre means man and hombrote big man
b. denoting a word formed by the addition of an augmentative affix