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Verb
/ôgˈment/,
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augmented, past participle; augments, 3rd person singular present; augmenting, present participle; augmented, past tense;
  1. Make (something) greater by adding to it; increase
    • - he augmented his summer income by painting houses
Noun
  1. A vowel prefixed to past tenses of verbs in Greek and other Indo-European languages

  1. enlarge or increase; "The recent speech of the president augmented tensions in the Near East"
  2. grow or intensify; "The pressure augmented"
  3. (augmented) added to or made greater in amount or number or strength; "his augmented renown"; "a greatly augmented collection of books"
  4. In linguistics, the augment is a syllable added to the beginning of the word in certain Indo-European languages, most notably Greek, Armenian, and the Indo-Iranian languages such as Sanskrit, to form the past tenses.
  5. "The Augments" is the name of the 82nd episode from the television series ''''. It is the sixth episode from the fourth season of the series. "The Augments" initially aired on November 12, 2004, on the American television network UPN.
  6. (Augmented (music)) In music and music theory augmentation (from Late Latin augmentare, to increase) is the lengthening or widening of rhythms, melodies, intervals or chords. The opposite is diminution (as in "a diminished triad").
  7. To increase; to make larger or supplement; To grow; to increase; to become greater; To slow the tempo or meter, e.g. for a dramatic or stately passage; To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone)
  8. (augmented) increased in number, amount or strength; raised in pitch by a semitone
  9. (Augmented) The quality of a chord having its intervals as the 1st, 3rd and sharp 5th notes of the major scale.
  10. (Augmented) The term for a major or perfect interval which has been enlarged by one half-step, e.g. c-g, (an augmented fifth,) or c-d, (an augmented second). Also used for a triad with an augmented fifth, e.g. the augmented tonic triad in C major, C+, c-e-g. ...
  11. (Augmented) Major triad (135) chord with a raised fifth (135#)
  12. (Augmented) A raised or sharpened note. e.g. An augmented 5th in the key of C is G# instead of G.
  13. (Augmented) Any note that has been raised by a semitone from it's normal position
  14. (Augmented) Raised by a half-step. See 'Alteration'.
  15. (Augmented) This is just a sexy word to say 'enriched', 'increased' or 'enhanced'.
  16. (Augmented) To have a limb or organ replaced with a mechanical one. Colloquial: "augie(s)".
  17. (Augmented) means that a pyramid has been joined to a face of the solid in question.
  18. (augmented) when a set of rhythmic values are lengthened; all values may be doubled, for instance. (Intervals may also be augmented, but this rarely happens in medieval music.) Antonym: diminished.
  19. To add Research Data Records or Context Data Records to a Data Case.
  20. This is the process of increasing the amount of research interviews for a particular subgroup within the population. If the client requires 30 completed surveys from Hispanic males and only 20 were completed from the initial research, an augment of 10 surveys of Hispanic males would be conducted.
  21. Also called a Sample Augment or Boost: To increase the number of interviews needed for a particular segment or subgroup—more than what a random sample of the total population would yield.
  22. To make greater, morenumerous, larger or more intense.
  23. To convert a profile to another kind of profile. For example, a server profile can be modified to become a bus profile. See also unaugment.
  24. To raise a note or musical interval within a chord or scale by a halftone.
  25. Genetically enhanced human being, with technology developed in the 20th century (TOS: "Space Seed", "Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan", ENT: "Borderland", "Cold Station 12", "The Augments", "Affliction", "Divergence").