Word Meanings - AUGMENTATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A additional charge to a coat of arms, given as a mark of honor. Cussans. (more info) 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

Additional info about word: AUGMENTATION

A additional charge to a coat of arms, given as a mark of honor. Cussans. (more info) 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AUGMENTATION)

• Accession
• Arrival
• addition
• increase
• influx
• augmentation
• reinforcement
• enlargement
• extension
• additament
• Adjunct
• annexation
• supplement
• acquisition
• accession
• Afflux
• importation
• Multiplication
• Multiplicity
• plurality
• multitudinousness
• multifariousness
• multitude
• repetition
• reiter ation
• reproduction
• swarming
• teeming

Related words: (words related to AUGMENTATION)

• REINFORCEMENT
  See REëNFORCEMENT
• SUPPLEMENT
  The number of degrees which, if added to a specified arc, make it 180°; the quantity by which an arc or an angle falls short of 180 degrees, or an arc falls short of a semicircle. Syn. -- Appendix. -- Appendix, Supplement. An appendix is that which
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• INFLUX
  1. The act of flowing in; as, an influx of light. 2. A coming in; infusion; intromission; introduction; importation in abundance; also, that which flows or comes in; as, a great influx of goods into a country, or an influx of gold and silver. The
• ADJUNCT
  A word or words added to quality or amplify the force of other words; as, the History of the American Revolution, where the words in italics are the adjunct or adjuncts of "History." (more info) 1. Something joined or added to another thing, but
• ADDITION
  That part of arithmetic which treats of adding numbers. (more info) 1. The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution. "This endless addition or addibility of numbers." Locke. 2. Anything added; increase;
• ADJUNCTIVELY
  In an adjunctive manner.
• ANNEXATION
  1. The act of annexing; process of attaching, adding, or appending; the act of connecting; union; as, the annexation of Texas to the United States, or of chattels to the freehold. The union of property with a freehold so as to become a fixture.
• ACQUISITION
  1. The act or process of acquiring. The acquisition or loss of a province. Macaulay. 2. The thing acquired or gained; an acquirement; a gain; as, learning is an acquisition. Syn. -- See Acquirement.
• ADJUNCTIVE
  Joining; having the quality of joining; forming an adjunct.
• REITERATE
  Reiterated; repeated.
• ADDITIONALLY
  By way of addition.
• ADDITAMENT
  An addition, or a thing added. Fuller. My persuasion that the latter verses of the chapter were an additament of a later age. Coleridge.
• INCREASE
  The period of increasing light, or luminous phase; the waxing; -- said of the moon. Seeds, hair, nails, hedges, and herbs will grow soonest if set or cut in the increase of the moon. Bacon. Increase twist, the twixt of a rifle groove in which the
• TEEMER
  One who teems, or brings forth.
• INFLUXION
  A flowing in; infusion. Bacon.
• AUGMENTATION
  A additional charge to a coat of arms, given as a mark of honor. Cussans. (more info) 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
• ANNEXATIONIST
  One who favors annexation.
• INCREASEMENT
  Increase. Bacon.
• TEEMING
  Prolific; productive. Teeming buds and cheerful appear. Dryden.
• INDIGNATION
  1. The feeling excited by that which is unworthy, base, or disgraceful; anger mingled with contempt, disgust, or abhorrence. Shak. Indignation expresses a strong and elevated disapprobation of mind, which is also inspired by something flagitious
• ATTENUATION
  1. The act or process of making slender, or the state of being slender; emaciation. 2. The act of attenuating; the act of making thin or less dense, or of rarefying, as fluids or gases. 3. The process of weakening in intensity; diminution
• COLLINEATION
  The act of aiming at, or directing in a line with, a fixed object. Johnson.
• DISPLANTATION
  The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
• TESTIFICATION
  The act of testifying, or giving testimony or evidence; as, a direct testification of our homage to God. South.
• FALCATION
  The state of being falcate; a bend in the form of a sickle. Sir T. Browne.
• MIGRATION
  The act of migrating.
• SUMMATION
  The act of summing, or forming a sum, or total amount; also, an aggregate. Of this series no summation is possible to a finite intellect. De Quincey.
• FLUXATION
  The act of fluxing.
• NATATION
  The act of floating on the water; swimming. Sir T. Browne.
• DILUCIDATION
  The act of making clear. Boyle.
• COLONIZATION
  Tha act of colonizing, or the state of being colonized; the formation of a colony or colonies. The wide continent of America invited colonization. Bancroft.
• ELICITATION
  The act of eliciting. Abp. Bramhall.
• FLOSSIFICATION
  A flowering; florification. Craig.
• VARIOLATION
  Inoculation with smallpox.
• GRAVIDATION
  Gravidity.
• FACILITATION
  The act of facilitating or making easy.
• ENDENIZATION
  The act of naturalizing.
• INCREPATION
  A chiding; rebuke; reproof. Hammond.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.