augmentation

IPA: ɑgmɛntˈeɪʃʌn

The act or process of augmenting.
An addition or extra, something that is added to something else.
(heraldry) A particular mark of honour, granted by the sovereign in consideration of some noble action, or by favour; and either quartered with the family arms, or on an escutcheon or canton.
(medicine) A surgical procedure to enlarge a body part, as breast augmentation.
(medicine) The stage of a disease during which symptoms increase or continue.
(music) A compositional technique where the composer lengthens the melody by lengthening its note values.
(Scotland, law) An increase of stipend obtained by a parish minister by an action raised in the Court of Teinds against the titular and heritors.

Examples of "augmentation" in Sentences

Or a particular rhythm: how's it work in augmentation?
Is this the latest trend in augmentation – a nipplectomy? nicole Says:
Rather, it uses the word "augmentation" -- the preferred language of the White House.
A friend and I speculated as to whether he has augmentation from a cybernetic implant.
Because the dinosaurs can read and have access to advanced technology due to brain augmentation.
In Deus Ex: Human Revolution, you play Adam Jensen, security chief for one of the many companies in the near future that are exploiting a new technology called "augmentation."
He is generally credited with having composed a motette in thirty-six parts having almost all the devices later known as augmentation, diminution, inversion, retrograde, crab, etc.
The main point in the picture is the rapid augmentation from a petty stream into a mighty river, not by the influx of side streams, but by its own self-supply from the sacred miraculous source in the temple [Henderson].
"The bad news is that this short-term augmentation of funds may again turn out to be a non-sustainable spurt," write the authors, leaving researchers scrambling to support projects started with the gusher of federal funds.