augment

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Pronunciation

• Verb:
  • (British) IPA: /ɔːɡˈmɛnt/
  • (America) IPA: /ɑɡˈmɛnt/
• Noun:
  • (British) IPA: /ˈɔːɡmənt/
  • (America) IPA: /ˈɑɡmənt/

Verb

augment (augments, present participle augmenting; past and past participle augmented)

1. (transitive) To increase; to make larger or supplement.

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

2. (intransitive, reflexive) To grow; to increase; to become greater.
3. (music) To slow the tempo or meter, e.g. for a dramatic or stately passage.
4. (music) To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone).
5. (grammar, transitive) To add an augment to.

Translations

• French: augmenter
• German: vergrößern, erhöhen, vermehren
• Italian: aumentare, crescere
• Portuguese: aumentar
• Russian: (increase/make larger) увели́чивать
• Spanish: aumentar, incrementar

Translations

• French: accroître, agrandir
• German: wachsen, zunehmen
• Italian: aumentarsi, accrescersi
• Portuguese: aumentar
• Russian: увели́чиваться

Translations

• French: élargir le mouvement

Translations

• French: augmenter l'intervalle

Noun

augment (plural augments)

1. (grammar) In some Indo-European languages, a prefix e- (a- in Sanskrit) indicating a past tense of a verb.
2. (grammar) In some Bantu languages, an additional vowel prepended to the noun prefix.
3. An increase.

Translations

• French: augment
• German: Augment, Augmentum

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