augmentation
the act of augmenting; state of being augmented.
that by which anything is augmented.
Music. modification of a theme by increasing the time value of all its notes.
Heraldry. an addition to a coat of arms granted to a person by a sovereign power in recognition of a notable action.
Origin of augmentation
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How to use augmentation in a sentence
Using ground-based augmentation, it can get down to millimeter-level accuracy.
Both BeiDou and GPS rely heavily on ground-based augmentation to boost positioning accuracy to the centimeter level.
Hyper-accurate positioning is rolling out worldwide | Katie McLean | February 24, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewPersonal augmentation systems that help people thrive as they age.
Wendy later tells Kevin that her parents weighed her weekly and that, following an “exhausting” struggle to control her weight, she has decided to get breast augmentation and liposuction.
Wendy Williams seems like the perfect Lifetime movie subject. So why is it so unsettling to watch? | Bethonie Butler | January 31, 2021 | Washington PostWe felt like we could build this new generation of developer tools and get to Michael Jordan’s vision of intelligent augmentation, which is giving creatives tools where they can be a lot more productive.
Pixie Labs raises $9.15M Series A round for its Kubernetes observability platform | Frederic Lardinois | October 1, 2020 | TechCrunch
The brochure, I later learned, was not for breast augmentation‚ but breast reconstruction.
In 2010, at 18 years old, she drew criticism for undergoing a $5,000 breast-augmentation surgery, going from an A-cup to a C-cup.
‘Teen Mom’ Farrah Abraham’s Rocky Path to Sex-Tape Stardom. Also, Sex Tapes Are Still a Thing? | Melissa Leon | April 11, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe cost of breast augmentation varies, but $5,000 is a representative figure.
In Germany, she was accused of 19 counts of fraud, including skipping out on a $10,000 bill for breast augmentation surgery.
Inside Los Angeles Arson Suspect Harry Burkhart’s Arrest | Christine Pelisek | January 4, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe judges appear to have done their best to find a good-taste beauty queen (i.e., not the biggest breast augmentation).
They would not, he thought, be much alarmed by any augmentation of power which the Emperor might obtain.
The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington MacaulayThe augmentation, or diminution, of its size, is caused by the care taken to unite the great with the small individuals.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume IX (of 10) | Georges Louis Leclerc de BuffonThe next day a royal message to parliament announced the augmentation of the navy.
The Political History of England - Vol. X. | William HuntIt includes but two formul: Either instinct is a fructification of intelligence; or intelligence is an augmentation of instinct.
The Natural Philosophy of Love | Remy de GourmontI hope you will find no great difficulty in procuring the small augmentation to the loan which it requires.
British Dictionary definitions for augmentation
/ (ˌɔːɡmɛnˈteɪʃən) /
the act of augmenting or the state of being augmented
the amount by which something is increased
music the presentation of a subject of a fugue, in which the note values are uniformly increased: Compare diminution (def. 2)
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