augmenter
or aug·men·tor
[ awg-men-ter ]
/ ɔgˈmɛn tər /
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noun
a person or thing that augments.
Aviation, Rocketry. any auxiliary device, as an afterburner, for additional thrust from the exhaust of a jet or rocket engine.
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How to use augmenter in a sentence
A small jet of steam sucks the air from the main condenser and compresses it into a small so-called augmentor condenser.