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augment

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
augment /ɔːgˈmɛnt/

▶verb

1 make greater by addition; increase.

2 (as adj. augmented) Music denoting an interval which is one semitone greater than the corresponding major or perfect interval.

– derivatives
augmenter noun.

– origin ME: from OFr. augmenter (v.), augment (n.), or late L. augmentare, from L. augere ‘to increase’.

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