Sentence examples for Augmentation from inspiring English sources
noun
The act or process of augmenting.
Another 38 departing staff received additional payments to their pensions – a policy of "pension augmentation" which has since been discontinued – of £3.8m.
This envisages water resources management for flood control and mitigation as well as augmentation of dry season flows of common rivers.
Together with amendments in 1984 and augmentation in 1986, this unlocked all the inventions and discoveries that had been made in laboratories throughout the United States with the help of taxpayers' money.
"He does smile his face into more lines than is in the new map with the augmentation of the Indies," says Maria of Malvolio in "Twelfth Night".
To run the air campaign, the NATO air operations centre in Italy required a major augmentation of targeting specialists, mainly from the US, to do the job – a "just in time" infusion of personnel that may not always be available in future contingencies.
In short, the augmentation of human intellect for the good of the whole human race.From dream to realityAt SRI in the early 1960s he set up his own Augmentation Research Centre funded by ARPA, a military-research outfit.
A study published by the National Association of Health Authorities last year found that one in six authorities now excluded certain treatments altogether, such as cosmetic surgery, tattoo removal and breast augmentation.
Indeed, the main ethical questions posed by the integration of technology into the body concern the augmentation of existing capabilities, rather than the restoration of missing or lost ones, says Pericle Salvini of the SSSA.Implants may also raise new questions about privacy and guardianship.
The number of breast-augmentation surgeries increased 306% between 1992 and 1998.
WHEN a patient in Illinois did not like the result of her breast-augmentation surgery, she reacted like many dissatisfied customers: by writing negative comments about her doctor on websites that feature such reviews.
America's space agency, NASA, has expressed interest in it, since muscle-augmentation systems might enable astronauts to work in space for longer without getting tired.Another company working in this area is Yobotics, based in Boston, Massachussetts, which has developed a powered device called the RoboKnee.
