augmentation

augmentation — noun

1. the act of making something larger, stronger, or more useful by adding more to i

1.nounC2
Definition

the act of making something larger, stronger, or more useful by adding more to it

Example

Extra funding allowed the clinic's augmentation of its night staff.

augmentation of + noun

The software team used image augmentation to train the phone camera faster.

technical collocation: image augmentation

Common collocations
  • augmentation of staff
  • augmentation of capacity
  • pay augmentation
  • image augmentation
  • breast augmentation
Synonyms
  • increase

    the broad everyday word for a rise in amount, size, or level

  • expansion

    often stresses becoming larger in area, scale, or business reach

  • enhancement

    focuses more on improving quality or performance

  • boost

    more informal and often suggests a quick helpful rise

Antonyms
  • reduction

    suggests making something smaller or less

  • cut

    often used for deliberate decreases in money, staff, or services

Grammar Patterns

augmentation of something

pay augmentation

image augmentation

breast augmentation

Usage Note

Usually used in formal or technical contexts and often followed by of + noun. Common collocations include pay augmentation, image augmentation, and breast augmentation.

Common Mistakes

The city planned an augmentation the bridge railings.
The city planned an augmentation of the bridge railings.
augmentation usually links to the thing improved with of.

Word family

  • augment
    verbC2
  • augmented
    adjectiveC2

Synonym discussion

Sense: noun/1

For this sense, augmentation is a formal word for making something greater by adding more to it. Increase is the widest and most everyday choice, and it can describe almost any rise in amount or level. Expansion usually stresses physical size, business growth, or wider reach. Enhancement focuses more on making something better in quality or performance than simply bigger. Boost is more informal and often suggests a quick helpful rise. A hospital may offer breast augmentation, a research team may use image augmentation, and a city may ask for budget augmentation instead of simply saying increase.

augmentation ↗increase ↗expansion ↗enhancementboost ↗

Common collocations

Nouns

Phrases

  • augmentation of staff
  • augmentation of capacity
  • image augmentation
  • budget augmentation

Prepositions

Etymology

LatinFrenchEnglish

Augmentation came into English through French from a Latin word meaning an increase. It is related to the Latin verb augere, meaning to make something grow or become greater. That history matches the modern sense of adding more to raise size, value, strength, or effect.