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reality with a software update, stacking the digital onto the real until you can't tell the seams.
means Made larger, greater, or more complete by adding something to what was already there.
from From Latin augere, 'to increase' — the same root that swells into 'augment,' 'auction' (a sale where the price keeps rising), and even 'author' (one who makes something grow). It passed through Latin's past participle augmentum into Old French augmenter before settling into English, carrying its sense of growth-by-addition the whole way. The 'augmented reality' usage is a modern bolt-on, but the bones are ancient: to augment has always meant to pile more onto a thing until it's bigger than it was.
- music theory
- An augmented chord sounds tense, unresolved, deliberately unsettling.
- first headset
- Ivan Sutherland built one in 1968, too heavy to wear freely.
- matrix math
- Augmented matrices glue coefficients and answers into one grid.
- surgical use
- Surgeons overlay scans onto patients during live operations.
- latin root
- From augere, to increase, same root as author.
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