augˈmented, ppl. a.
[f. augment v. + -ed.]
1. Made greater, increased, intensified.
| 1605 Thynne in Animadv. Introd. 112 Your augmented Kingdomes. 1667 Milton P.L. vi. 280 Or some more sudden vengeance..Precipitate thee with augmented paine. 1859 Mill Liberty 180 The augmented price. |
2. spec. a. Her. Of coats of arms: Having an additional charge granted as an honourable distinction. b. Mus. Of an interval: greater by a chromatic semitone than a perfect, or than a major, interval of the same name: opp. to diminished. c. Bot. Increased by the addition of other parts.
| 1776 J. Lee Introd. Bot. (ed. 3) 404 Auctus calyx, augmented, having a Series of distinct Leaves, shorter than its own, that surround its Base. 1825 [see fifth n. 2 a]. 1864 Boutell Heraldry Hist. & Pop. xxviii. 434 Examples of augmented shields. 1869 Ouseley Counterpoint 9 The augmented fourth or tritone is an interval peculiarly abhorrent to strict Counterpoint. 1947 A. Einstein Mus. in Rom. Era ix. 100 The Sanctus, which leaves the major key of F by way of an augmented fifth chord. 1954 Grove's Dict. Mus. (ed. 5) IV. 522/1 An augmented interval, so limited, is a chromatic interval regarded as a perfect or a major diatonic interval extended by adding to it a chromatic semitone. |
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▸ augmented reality n. the use of technology which allows the perception of the physical world to be enhanced or modified by computer-generated stimuli perceived with the aid of special equipment; reality as perceived in this way.
| 1992 T. P. Caudell & D. W. Mizell in Proc. 25th Hawaii Internat. Conf. Syst. Sci. II. 659 (title) *Augmented reality: an application of heads-up display technology to manual manufacturing processes. 1997 New Scientist 22 Mar. 23/1 Superman could simultaneously see the inside and outside of a building... Soon mere mortals such as surgeons and jobbing builders may be able to emulate this feat, using ‘augmented reality’. 2003 S. Greenfield Tomorrow's People (2004) iii. 67 A still more pervasive invasion into our lives will not be a wholesale takeover by an alternative reality so much as an ‘augmented reality’. |