Augment vs Aggregate - What's the difference?
augment | aggregate |
To increase; to make larger or supplement.
(reflexive) To grow; to increase; to become greater.
(music) To slow the tempo or meter, e.g. for a dramatic or stately passage.
(music) To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone).
(grammar) To add an augment to.
(grammar) In some Indo-European languages, a prefix e-'' (''a- in Sanskrit) indicating a past tense of a verb.
A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; something consisting of elements but considered as a whole.(rfex)
A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; – in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.(rfex)
(mathematics, obsolete) A set (collection of objects).
(music) The full chromatic scale of twelve equal tempered pitches.
(roofing) Crushed stone, crushed slag or water-worn gravel used for surfacing a built-up roof system.
Solid particles of low aspect ratio added to a composite material, as distinguished from the matrix and any fibers or reinforcements, especially the gravel and sand added to concrete. (technical)
Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective; combined; added up
Consisting or formed of smaller objects or parts.
Formed into clusters or groups of lobules.
(botany) Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.
Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.
United into a common organized mass; said of certain compound animals.
To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum.
To add or unite, as, a person, to an association.
To amount in the aggregate to.
In transitive terms the difference between augment and aggregate
is that augment is to increase; to make larger or supplement while aggregate is to amount in the aggregate to.In lang=en terms the difference between augment and aggregate
is that augment is to increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone) while aggregate is the full chromatic scale of twelve equal tempered pitches.As an adjective aggregate is
formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective; combined; added up.augment
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Verb
(en verb)- The money from renting out a spare room can augment a salary.
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* ----aggregate
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Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars: clusterSee also
* twelve-tone technique * serialismReferences
* DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0130493465, Ch. 6.Adjective
(en adjective)- aggregate glands.
Verb
(aggregat)- The aggregated soil .
- ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels .