Augmentation

1. n. In counterpoint and fugue, a repetition of the subject in tones of twice the original length.
2. n. The act or process of augmenting, or making larger, by addition, expansion, or dilation; increase.
3. n. The state of being augmented; enlargement.
4. n. The thing added by way of enlargement.
5. n. A additional charge to a coat of arms, given as a mark of honor.
6. n. The stage of a disease in which the symptoms go on increasing.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.