augmentation
noun
Meaning
- The act or process of augmenting.
- An addition or extra, something that is added to something else.
- A particular mark of honour, granted by the sovereign in consideration of some noble action, or by favour; and either quartered with the family arms, or on an escutcheon or canton.
- A surgical procedure to enlarge a body part, as breast augmentation.
- The stage of a disease during which symptoms increase or continue.
- A compositional technique where the composer lengthens the melody by lengthening its note values.
- An increase of stipend obtained by a parish minister by an action raised in the Court of Teinds against the titular and heritors.
Etymology / origin
From Middle English augmentation, augmentacion, augmentacioun, from Old French augmentacion, from Latin augmentātiō, verbal noun from augmentō (“increase”, verb).
- *h₂ewg-(ine-pro)→
- augmentātiō(la)→
- augmentacion(Old French)→
- augmentation(enm)→
- augmentation (English)
- Relations: inh, der, der, root
Related words
Descendant words
- augmentaatio(Finnish) (cog)
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