Augment vs Proliferation - What's the difference?
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As nouns the difference between augment and proliferation is that augment is (grammar) in some indo-european languages, a prefix e-'' (''a- in sanskrit) indicating a past tense of a verb while proliferation is proliferation, spreading. As a verb augment is to increase; to make larger or supplement.
Other Comparisons: What's the difference?
augment English
Verb
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To increase; to make larger or supplement.
- The money from renting out a spare room can augment a salary.
(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.
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(grammar) In some Indo-European languages, a prefix e-'' (''a- in Sanskrit) indicating a past tense of a verb.
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proliferation English
Noun
(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= Denied an education by war
, passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools
(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.
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