Augmentation

1. A additional charge to a coat of arms, given as a mark of honor.
2. The thing added by way of enlargement.
3. The act or process of augmenting, or making larger, by addition, expansion, or dilation; increase.
4. The state of being augmented; enlargement.
5. In counterpoint and fugue, a repetition of the subject in tones of twice the original length.
6. The stage of a disease in which the symptoms go on increasing.