AUGMENT

augment

(verb) enlarge or increase; “The recent speech of the president augmented tensions in the Near East”

augment

(verb) grow or intensify; “The pressure augmented”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

augment (third-person singular simple present augments, present participle augmenting, simple past and past participle augmented)

(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.

Noun

augment (plural augments)

(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.

Anagrams

• mutagen, negatum

Source: Wiktionary

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Aug*ment", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Augmented; p. pr. & vb. n. Augmenting.] Etym: [L. augmentare, fr. augmentum an increase, fr. augere to increase; perh. akin to Gr. wax, v., and eke, v.: cf. F. augmenter.]

1. To enlarge or increase in size, amount, or degree; to swell; to make bigger; as, to augment an army by reëforcements; rain augments a stream; impatience augments an evil. But their spite still serves His glory to augment. Milton.

2. (Gram.)

Definition: To add an augment to.

Aug*ment", v. i.

Definition: To increase; to grow larger, stronger, or more intense; as, a stream augments by rain.

Aug"ment, n. Etym: [L. augmentum: cf. F. augment.]

1. Enlargement by addition; increase.

2. (Gram.)

Definition: A vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs.

Note: In Greek, the syllabic augment is a prefixed temporal augment is an increase of the quantity (time) of an initial vowel, as by changing

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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