The act or process of augmenting.
A surgical procedure to enlarge a body part, as breast augmentation.
A particular mark of honour, granted by the sovereign in consideration of some noble action, or by favour; and either quartered with the family arms, or on an escutcheon or canton.
The stage of a disease during which symptoms increase or continue.
A compositional technique where the composer lengthens the melody by lengthening its note values.
An increase of stipend obtained by a parish minister by an action raised in the Court of Teinds against the titular and heritors.
An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas.
An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorized to have occurred very shortly after the Big Bang.
An increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living.
An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money.
A decline in the value of money.
Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.