augmentation

augmentation is a Noun

Definition:

[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.