augmentation

Other forms of augmentation

plural

augmentations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about augmentation

What does augmentation mean?

augmentation means "the amount by which something increases". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in augmentation?

augmentation has 4 syllables: aug-men-ta-tion. The stress falls on "ta". In IPA it is /ˌɑɡmɛnˈteɪʃən/.

What is the opposite of augmentation?

The recorded antonyms are diminution.

Is augmentation a common word?

augmentation is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with augmentation?

89 words rhyme with augmentation. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.