augment

1 enlarge or increase; "The recent speech of the PLO chairman augmented tensions in the Near East"

2 grow or intensify; "The pressure augmented"

English

Etymology

From augmenter.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Verb

1. To increase, make larger or supplement.

   The money from renting out a spare room can augment a salary.

2. To slow the tempo or meter, e.g. for a dramatic or stately passage.
3. To increase an interval by a half step (chromatic semitone).
4. To increase the largest interval in a triad, especially a fifth or a sixth, by a half-step (chromatic semitone).

Translations

• Chinese: 增加 (1)
• Dutch: verhogen (1, 2), vergroten (3, 4)
• Finnish: lisätä (1)
• French: augmenter (1)
• German: vermehren (1), vergrößern (1)
• Interlingua: augmentar (1)
• Italian: aumentare (1)
• Japanese: 増やす (fuyasu, 1), 増加する (zoukasuru, 1)
• Latin: augmentare (1)
• Norwegian: økning (1)
• Portuguese: aumentar (1)
• Spanish: aumentar (1)
• Volapük: xäinön (1)
• Tagalog: palakihin

Noun

1. In some Indo-European languages, a prefix e- (a- in Sanskrit) indicating a past tense of a verb.

Augment may refer to:

• Augment (linguistics)
• Augmentation (music), the musical technique of lengthening or widening of rhythm or interval
• Augmentation (obstetrics), the process by which the first &/or second stages of an already established labour is accelerated or potentiated by deliberate and artificial means.
• Augmentation (psychiatry), the combination of two or more drugs to achieve better treatment results
• Synaptic augmentation, a form of short term synaptic plasticity
• Augmentation (heraldry), heraldic modifications
• Augment (Star Trek), in Star Trek, a group of genetically engineered humans.
• Augment (band)
• NLS (computer system), the pioneering computer hypertext system derived from Douglas Engelbart's oNLine System, renamed "Augment" by Tymshare
• Augmented (band)
• Nanotechnological augmentations, a feature in the computer game Deus Ex and its spiritual successor Project: Snowblind (renamed to "biomods" in its sequel, Deus Ex: Invisible War).
• Augmented reality
• Augmented cognition

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