Augmentation

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. The act or process of augmenting, or making larger, by addition, expansion, or dilation; increase.

2. The state of being augmented; enlargement.

3. The thing added by way of enlargement.

4. A additional charge to a coat of arms, given as a mark of honor. Cussans.

5. The stage of a disease in which the symptoms go on increasing. Dunglison.

6. In counterpoint and fugue, a repetition of the subject in tones of twice the original length. Augmentation court (Eng. Hist.), a court erected by Stat. 27 Hen. VIII., to augment to revenues of the crown by the suppression of monasteries. It was long ago dissolved. Encyc. Brit.

Synonyms: Increase; enlargement; growth; extension; accession; addition.