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augment

verb
/ɔːɡˈmɛnt/UK/ɔɡˈmɛnt/US/ɑɡˈmɛnt//ˈɔːɡmənt/UK/ˈɔɡmɛnt/US/ˈɑɡmɛnt/

Etymology

From Middle English augmenten, from Middle French augmenter, from Old French augmenter, from Late Latin augmentare (“to increase”), from Latin augmentum (“an increase, growth”), from augere (“to increase”).

  1. derived from augmentum
  2. derived from augmentare
  3. derived from augmenter
  4. derived from augmenter
  5. inherited from augmenten

Definitions

  1. To increase

    To increase; to make larger or supplement.

    • The money from renting out a spare room can augment a salary.

  2. To grow

    To grow; to increase; to become greater.

  3. To slow the tempo or meter, e.g. for a dramatic or stately passage.

  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step…

      To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone).

    2. To add an augment to.

    3. A grammatical prefix

      • The augment is found in Greek, Indo-Iranian, Armenian and Phrygian.

    4. An increase.

The neighborhood

Derived

augmentary, augmentee, augmentive, bioaugment, reaugment, augmentless

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at augment. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at augment. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at augment

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA