Augment vs Proliferation - What's the difference?
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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.
(uncountable) The process by which an organism produces others of its kind; breeding, propagation, procreation, reproduction.
(countable) The act of increasing or rising; augmentation, amplification, enlargement, escalation, aggrandizement.
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, title= (countable) The result of building up; buildup, accretion.
(uncountable) The spread of biochemical, nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction to countries not originally involved in developing them.
As nouns the difference between augment and proliferation
is that augment is in some Indo-European languages, a prefix e- (a- in Sanskrit) indicating a past tense of a verb while proliferation is the process by which an organism produces others of its kind; breeding, propagation, procreation, reproduction.As a verb augment
is to increase; to make larger or supplement.augment
English
Verb
(en verb)- The money from renting out a spare room can augment a salary.
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Mark Tran
Denied an education by war, passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools
