augment
IPA: ɔgmˈɛnt
noun
- (grammar) In some Indo-European languages, a prefix e- (a- in Sanskrit) indicating a past tense of a verb.
- (grammar) In some Bantu languages, an additional vowel prepended to the noun prefix.
- An increase.
verb
- (transitive) To increase; to make larger or supplement.
- (intransitive, reflexive) To grow; to increase; to become greater.
- (music) To slow the tempo or meter, e.g. for a dramatic or stately passage.
- (music) To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone).
- (grammar, transitive) To add an augment to.
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Examples of "augment" in Sentences
- This supports efforts to "augment" its credit-card unit business, he said.
- Magnusson says he wants to use the wearable computer to "augment" his memory.
- So why not take this natural mixing and "augment" it with some involuntary wealth redistribution?
- (*) (*) There is a pun in the French on the two meanings of the verb _hausser_, -- "to raise" and to "augment" or "run up."
- This may not be what most people imagine when they think of augmented reality, but it is perhaps the main money spinner for using data to "augment" the real world.
- The 2008 treaty paved the way for Italy and Libya to "augment" their economic ties, said Shokri Ghanem, chairman of Libya's National Oil Co. and a former prime minister.
- Bamford went on to say that, "Microsoft has taken firmer control of the core experience," meaning that the Sense UI couldn't be fully integrated into Windows Phone 7 devices, but that they would "augment" the OS with extra functionality, which he remained tight-lipped about.
- Of course, that hasn't stopped Jasper Fforde from saying idiotic things like: "My thoughts on Fan Fiction are pretty much this: That it seems strange to want to copy or 'augment' someone else's work when you could expend just as much energy and have a lot more fun making up your own."
- Where the funds are going, and as Rose Ferlita so clearly pointed out in her arguments, the generosity to areas that disproportionately "augment" private business enterprise eg, sports authority beneficiaries, does not demonstrate a magnitude of benefit to justify the level in increased expenditure and are therefore ... inappropriate when other services are being left ...
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