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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. (augment) enlarge or increase; "The recent speech of the president augmented tensions in the Near East"
  2. (augmented) added to or made greater in amount or number or strength; "his augmented renown"; "a greatly augmented collection of books"
  3. "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.
  4. (Augment (linguistics)) 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. (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").
  6. (augment) 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)
  7. (augmented) increased in number, amount or strength; raised in pitch by a semitone
  8. (augment) Add to, or increase.
  9. (Augment) This is the process of increasing the amount of research interviews for a particular subgroup within the population. ...
  10. (AUGMENT) To make greater, morenumerous, larger or more intense.
  11. (Augment) Any human significantly enhanced by cybermagical implants. Usually used to refer to augmented criminals.
  12. (Augment) 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").
  13. (Augment) To add Research Data Records or Context Data Records to a Data Case.
  14. (Augment) To raise a note or musical interval within a chord or scale by a halftone.
  15. (augment (noun)) h9 au1chsij, -ewj (LSJ, cites EM.338.47)
  16. (augment) 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.
  17. (augment) amplify, heighten, strengthen, To make (something already developed or well under way) greater, as in size, extent, or quantity., augmented perception, augemented thought, augmented experience.
  18. Drugs to augment labor are given after labor has begun, but fails to progress, or when the contractions have slowed down and are weak or ineffective, prolonging labor unnecessarily.
  19. (Augmented) The quality of a chord having its intervals as the 1st, 3rd and sharp 5th notes of the major scale.
  20. (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. ...
  21. (Augmented) Major triad (135) chord with a raised fifth (135#)
  22. (Augmented) A raised or sharpened note. e.g. An augmented 5th in the key of C is G# instead of G.
  23. (Augmented) Any note that has been raised by a semitone from it's normal position
  24. (Augmented) Raised by a half-step. See 'Alteration'.
  25. (Augmented) This is just a sexy word to say 'enriched', 'increased' or 'enhanced'.