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noun

Augmentation n.

The act or process of augmenting, or making larger, by addition, expansion, or dilation; increase.

The state of being augmented; enlargement.

The thing added by way of enlargement.

(Her.) A additional charge to a coat of arms, given as a mark of honor.

(Med.) The stage of a disease in which the symptoms go on increasing.

(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 the revenues of the crown by the suppression of monasteries. It was long ago dissolved.

Synonyms: Increase; enlargement; growth; extension; accession; addition.

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"Augmentation" Quotes from Famous Books

... and harmony is almost imperceptible, and even when considerably enlarged, is so trifling as in the majority of cases to prove no objection in comparison with the advantage gained in size, while in not a few cases, as already stated, the picture actually gains by an augmentation of size. Thus, by the simultaneous action, if necessary, of some hundreds of negatives, many thousand impressions of the same picture may be produced in the course ...

— Notes and Queries, Number 194, July 16, 1853 • Various

... the use of tobacco, to appoint Sir James Leslie and Thomas Dalmahoy to enjoy for seven years the sole power of appointing licensed vendors of the commodity. These vendors, after due examination as to their fitness, were to be permitted, on payment of certain compositions and an annual rent in augmentation of the King's revenue, to sell tobacco in small quantities. The letter further directs that the licensees so appointed shall become bound to sell only sound tobacco—an admirable provision, if a trifle difficult to enforce—and to keep good order in their houses ...

— The Social History of Smoking • G. L. Apperson

... into which steam could be introduced. I had chosen a specimen which gave regular response. On the introduction of steam, with the consequent sudden increase of temperature, there was a transitory augmentation of excitability. But this quickly disappeared, and in five minutes the plant was effectively killed, as will be seen graphically illustrated in ...

— Response in the Living and Non-Living • Jagadis Chunder Bose

... Sur l'augmentation continuelle de nos connaissances a l'egard des especes et sur une nouvelle espece de Sauge. Salvia scabiosaefolia. p. 44, pl. 27. Journ. d'Hist. ...

— Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution - His Life and Work • Alpheus Spring Packard

... that he lacks bread and lives on alms. In Champagne, the syndics of Bar-sur-Aube write[5241] that the inhabitants, to escape duties, have more than once emptied their wine into the river, the provincial assembly declaring that "in the greater portion of the province the slightest augmentation of duties would cause the cultivators to desert the soil."—Such is the history of wine under the ancient regime. From the producer who grows to the tapster who sells, what extortions and what vexations! ...

— The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 1 (of 6) - The Ancient Regime • Hippolyte A. Taine

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