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AUGMENTATION, or enlargement, a term in heraldry for an addition to a coat of arms; in music, for the imitation in longer notes of an original theme; in biology, an addition to the normal number of parts; in Scots law, an increase of a minister's stipend by an ...

AUGMENT (Lat. augere, to increase), in Sanskrit and Greek grammar the vowel prefixed to indicate the past tenses of a verb; in Greek grammar it is called syllabic, when only the e is prefixed; temporal, when it causes an initial vowel in the verb to become a d

... of fortifications. From this time to the conclusion of the Crimean War various augmentations took place, consequent on the increasing and widely extending duties thrown upon the officers. These, in addition to ordinary military duties, comprised the construct ...

... ctricity of the ball. A second rotation will, of course, produce a proportion.! augmentation of these increased quantities; and a continuance o FIG. 3. — Nicholson's Revolving Doubter. urning will soon bring the intensities to their maximum, which is iimt«lbya ...

... I batteries. The events of 1885, however, on the Russo- Afghan frontier, led to augmentations. The 1 1 batteries Royal Artillery were brought back from England; each of the 9 British cavalry regiments in India received a fourth squadron; each of the British in ...