augmentation

n.

1. The act or process of augmenting.
2. The condition of being augmented.
3. Something that augments.
4. Music. The presentation of a theme in notes of usually double time value.

noun

1. The act of increasing or rising: aggrandizement, amplification, augment, boost, buildup, enlargement, escalation, growth, hike, increase, jump, multiplication, proliferation, raise, rise, swell, upsurge, upswing, upturn. See increase/decrease.
2. Something tending to augment something else: accession, addition, acquisition. See increase/decrease.

n

Definition: improvement
Antonyms: diminishment, lessening

n

Definition: making greater; improvement
Antonyms: decrease, degradation

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n

1. assistance to respiration by the application of intermittent pressure on inspiration. n 2. an increase in size beyond the existing size, such as an implant placed over the mandibular or maxillary ridges.

The statement of a theme in longer notes than when it was first heard; augmentation is often used in sacred music of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and keyboard music of the Baroque (for example Bach's organ fugue in C, bwv 547).

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The lengthening of note values used in a theme to alter the melody without changing the pitches.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - forøgelse, tilvækst, forstærkelse

Nederlands (Dutch)
vergroting, vermeerdering, toename, groei, toe-/bijvoeging, het verlengen van tonen in melodie

Français (French)
n. - augmentation, accroissement

Deutsch (German)
n. - Vergrößerung, Zunahme

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - αύξηση, επαύξηση

Italiano (Italian)
aumento, ampliamento

Português (Portuguese)
n. - aumento (m)

Русский (Russian)
увеличение, прирост, нарастание

Español (Spanish)
n. - aumento, acrecentamiento, incremento

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - ökning, förstärkning

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
扩大, 增加, 增加物, 增大, 主题延长

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 擴大, 增加, 增加物, 增大, 主題延長

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 증가[율, 물], 주제

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 増大, 増加, 増加物

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) زياده, ازدياد‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮גידול, תוספת, הארכה‬

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