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# augmentation

«augmentation» in Mova's school dictionary: **Making something bigger, larger or stronger by adding to it** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (augmentation, augmentations)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (formal) Making something bigger, larger or stronger by adding to it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/augmentation/#m1)

2) Something added to make something larger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/augmentation/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Formal and exam voice: augmentation of income, augmentation of a team. In music: making note lengths longer. In medicine: surgery that makes a body part bigger. Phrases: augmentation of.

### examples

- The club asked for an augmentation of its budget. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/augmentation/#x1)
- The augmentation of the team made the work faster. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/augmentation/#x2)
- The new wing was an augmentation to the school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/augmentation/#x3)
- In music, augmentation makes each note last twice as long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/augmentation/#x4)
- The pay augmentation pleased the workers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/augmentation/#x5)
- Augmentation of the library added 200 books. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/augmentation/#x6)

### note

Formal; everyday: increase, boost, addition. Verb: augment. In maths problems "augmented by 20" means increased by 20, so add 20.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «augmentation» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/augmentation/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.