Augmentation vs Enlargement - What's the difference?
augmentation | enlargement | Synonyms |
The act or process of augmenting.
(heraldry) 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.
(medicine) A surgical procedure to enlarge a body part, as breast augmentation.
(medicine) The stage of a disease during which symptoms increase or continue.
(music) a compositional technique where the composer lengthens the melody by multiplying the length of each note by the same number
The act of making something larger.
(figuratively) A making more obvious or serious; exacerbation.
:* Bathsheba underwent the enlargement of her husband's absence from hours to days with a slight feeling of surprise, and a slight feeling of relief; yet neither sensation rose at any time far above the level commonly designated as indifference.
An image, particularly a photograph, that has been enlarged.
Augmentation is a synonym of enlargement.
As nouns the difference between augmentation and enlargement
is that augmentation is the act or process of augmenting while enlargement is the act of making something larger.augmentation
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(en noun)References
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(en noun)- Rick was ashamed about the size of his penis, so he had a penis enlargement .
- ‘’’1874 Thomas Hardy, ‘’Far From the Madding Crowd’’, 2005 Barnes & Noble Classics publication of 1912 Wessex edition, p337:
