English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃǝn

Noun

1. The act or process of augmenting.
2. 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.
3. A surgical procedure to enlarge a body part, as breast augmentation.
4. The stage of a disease during which symptoms increase or continue.

References

French

Noun

1. increase

• 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