augmentation

[ awg-men-tey-shuhn ]

noun

1. the act of augmenting; state of being augmented.
2. that by which anything is augmented.
3. Music. modification of a theme by increasing the time value of all its notes.
4. Heraldry. an addition to a coat of arms granted to a person by a sovereign power in recognition of a notable action.

augmentation

/ ˌɔːɡmɛnˈteɪʃən /

noun

1. the act of augmenting or the state of being augmented
2. the amount by which something is increased
3. music the presentation of a subject of a fugue, in which the note values are uniformly increased Compare diminution

Word History and Origins

Origin of augmentation¹

1425–75; late Middle English (< Anglo-French ) < Late Latin augmentātiōn- (stem of augmentātiō ). See augment, -ation; replacing late Middle English aumentacion < Middle French

Example Sentences

Save Face is calling for the enactment of 'Alice’s Law', which would make it illegal for anyone other than a registered Plastic Surgeon on the GMC specialist register, operating from a CQC regulated environment, to perform buttock augmentation procedures using hyaluronic acid dermal fillers.

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But she adds that her film injects possible notes of caution into the issue of body augmentation.

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The film also highlights that three years earlier, BBC News presenter Stephen Sackur highlighted possible ethical concerns about body augmentation.

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Dani Clode, an augmentation designer for Cambridge University's neuroscience plasticity lab, finds Harbisson "fascinating" but says she and her colleagues are still working out if augmentation is "a good thing, or is it a bad thing?"

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"I'm thinking, not so much me - I'm nearly 70 - but there's young girls, because they wanted breast augmentation, and they're walking around like timebombs," she said.

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Related Words

• enhancement
• enlargement