AUGMENTATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does augmentation mean? 

• AUGMENTATION (noun)
  The noun AUGMENTATION has 3 senses:

1. the amount by which something increases

2. the statement of a theme in notes of greater duration (usually twice the length of the original)

3. the act of augmenting

  Familiarity information: AUGMENTATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUGMENTATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The amount by which something increases

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("augmentation" is a kind of...):

increase (a change resulting in an increase)

Derivation:

augment (enlarge or increase)

augment (grow or intensify)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The statement of a theme in notes of greater duration (usually twice the length of the original)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("augmentation" is a kind of...):

statement ((music) the presentation of a musical theme)

Antonym:

diminution (the statement of a theme in notes of lesser duration (usually half the length of the original))

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of augmenting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("augmentation" is a kind of...):

increase; step-up (the act of increasing something)

Derivation:

augment (enlarge or increase)

 Context examples 

Also refers to the reduction in the volume of a body or substance and augmentation of its density due to pressure.

(Compression, NCI Thesaurus)

The Fc portion of this monoclonal antibody has been engineered to possess a higher binding affinity for variant Fc receptors on T helper cells, resulting in an augmentation of the anti-tumor immune response.

(Ocaratuzumab, NCI Thesaurus)

Mr. Weston was chatty and convivial, and no friend to early separations of any sort; but at last the drawing-room party did receive an augmentation.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Augmentation does not refer to the strength of the drug in the dosage form.

(Augmented Cream Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

It was a great augmentation of my uneasiness to be bereaved, at this eventful crisis, of the inestimable services of Miss Mills.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Pidilizumab blocks interaction between the receptor PD-1 with its ligands, PD-1 ligand 1 (PD-1L1) and PD-1 ligand 2 (PD-1L2), resulting in the attenuation of apoptotic processes in lymphocytes, primarily effector/memory T cells, and the augmentation of the anti-tumor activities of NK cells.

(Pidilizumab, NCI Thesaurus)

Interferons bind to specific cell-surface receptors, leading to the transcription and translation of genes with an interferon-specific response element, thereby inducing: antiviral effects (the most important being inhibition of viral protein synthesis); antiproliferative effects (including inhibition of cellular growth and alteration of cellular differentiation); anticancer effects (including interference with oncogene expression); and immune-modulating effects (including activation of natural killer cells, alteration of cell surface antigen expression, and augmentation of lymphocyte and macrophage cytotoxicity).

(Interferon Alfa-N3, NCI Thesaurus)

He hath by rote the name of every knight of France or of England; and all the tree of his family, with his kinships, coat-armor, marriages, augmentations, abatements, and I know not what beside.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She, who so gloried in my fame, and so looked forward to its augmentation, well knew that I would labour on.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was Mrs. Steerforth, who gave me her hand more coldly than of yore, and with an augmentation of her former stateliness of manner, but still, I perceived—and I was touched by it—with an ineffaceable remembrance of my old love for her son.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)