What does "augmentation" mean?
Augmentation: The state of being augmented; enlargement.
Additional senses
- 2.The thing added by way of enlargement.
- 3.(Her.) A additional charge to a coat of arms, given as a mark of honor. Cussans.
- 4.(Med.) The stage of a disease in which the symptoms go on increasing. Dunglison.
- 5.(Mus.) In counterpoint and fugue, a repetition of the subject in tones of twice the original length. Augmentation court (Eng. Hist.), a court erected by Stat. 27 Hen. VIII., to augment to revenues of the crown by the suppression of monasteries. It was long ago dissolved. Encyc. Brit.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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