augmentation
The musician practiced the augmentation of the melody by playing each note for twice its original length.
- Noun:
- The act or process of making something larger, greater, or more intense: "Augmentation" refers to the action of increasing the size, number, value, or strength of something.
- The amount or result of such an increase: It can also refer to the specific quantity or degree by which something has been increased.
- (Music) A compositional technique where the note values of a melody are lengthened, typically doubled: In music theory, it is the statement of a theme in notes of longer duration than in its original form.
General Use (Act of Increasing):
- The augmentation of the city's police force has improved public safety.
- Data augmentation is a common technique in machine learning to create more training examples.
General Use (Result/Amount of Increase):
- The budget saw an augmentation of 15% compared to last year.
- The new evidence provided a significant augmentation to the theory.
Musical Use:
- The composer used augmentation in the final movement, giving the familiar theme a more majestic and solemn character.
- Listen for the theme's augmentation in the bass line; the notes are twice as long as in the opening.
"Augmentation of": Commonly used to specify what is being increased.
- The project requires an augmentation of resources to meet the deadline.
In Technical/Medical Contexts: Often used to describe procedures that enhance or enlarge.
- Breast augmentation is a surgical procedure.
- Reality augmentation technologies overlay digital information onto the physical world.
Augment (verb): To make greater, larger, or more intense.
- They needed to augment their income with a second job.
Augmented (adjective): Having been made greater in size or value; (in music) denoting a chord with a raised fifth.
- She viewed the world through augmented reality glasses.
- The piece ends on an augmented chord.
- Increase: A general term for becoming or making greater.
- Enhancement: An increase that improves the quality, value, or extent of something.
- Expansion: The action of becoming larger or more extensive.
- Amplification: The process of increasing the volume, effect, or scope of something.
- Reduction: The action of making something smaller or less in amount.
- Diminution: A reduction in the size, extent, or importance of something.
- Decrease: An instance of becoming smaller or fewer.
(Note: "Augmentation" itself is not commonly used in idiomatic phrases. The related verb "augment" is used instead.) - To augment reality: A set of technologies that superimposes computer-generated images on a user's view of the real world. - Augmented product: In marketing, the additional services or benefits that support a core product.
The musician practiced the augmentation of the melody by playing each note for twice its original length.
- the act of augmenting
- the statement of a theme in notes of greater duration (usually twice the length of the original)
- the amount by which something increases