Définition "augmented" dans le dictionnaire Collins English Dictionary & Thesaurus

augmented adj

1 (Music) (of an interval) increased or expanded from the state of being perfect or major by the raising of the higher note or the dropping of the lower note by one semitone
C to G is a perfect fifth, but C to G sharp is an augmented fifth Compare → diminished → 2

2 (Music)

a denoting a chord based upon an augmented triad
an augmented seventh chord

b denoting a triad consisting of the root plus a major third and an augmented fifth

c (esp. in jazz) denoting a chord having as its root the note specified
D augmented

3 having been increased, esp. in number
an augmented orchestra

augmented transition network n
(in certain schools of linguistics) a formalism, usually expressed as a diagram, having the power of a Turing machine, used as the basis of processes transforming sentences into their syntactic representations, (Abbrev.) ATN