| 单词 |
augmented |
| 释义 |
augˈmented, ppl. a.
[f. augment v. + -ed.]
1. Made greater, increased, intensified.
1605Thynne in Animadv. Introd. 112 Your augmented Kingdomes. 1667Milton P.L. vi. 280 Or some more sudden vengeance..Precipitate thee with augmented paine. 1859Mill Liberty 180 The augmented price.
2. spec.
a. Her. Of coats of arms: Having an additional charge granted as an honourable distinction.
b. Mus. Of an interval: greater by a chromatic semitone than a perfect, or than a major, interval of the same name: opp. to diminished.
c. Bot. Increased by the addition of other parts.
1776J. Lee Introd. Bot. (ed. 3) 404 Auctus calyx, augmented, having a Series of distinct Leaves, shorter than its own, that surround its Base. 1825[see fifth n. 2 a]. 1864Boutell Heraldry Hist. & Pop. xxviii. 434 Examples of augmented shields. 1869Ouseley Counterpoint 9 The augmented fourth or tritone is an interval peculiarly abhorrent to strict Counterpoint. 1947A. Einstein Mus. in Rom. Era ix. 100 The Sanctus, which leaves the major key of F by way of an augmented fifth chord. 1954Grove's Dict. Mus. (ed. 5) IV. 522/1 An augmented interval, so limited, is a chromatic interval regarded as a perfect or a major diatonic interval extended by adding to it a chromatic semitone.
▸ augmented reality n. the use of technology which allows the perception of the physical world to be enhanced or modified by computer-generated stimuli perceived with the aid of special equipment; reality as perceived in this way.
1992T. P. Caudell & D. W. Mizell in Proc. 25th Hawaii Internat. Conf. Syst. Sci. II. 659 (title) *Augmented reality: an application of heads-up display technology to manual manufacturing processes. 1997New Scientist 22 Mar. 23/1 Superman could simultaneously see the inside and outside of a building... Soon mere mortals such as surgeons and jobbing builders may be able to emulate this feat, using ‘augmented reality’. 2003S. Greenfield Tomorrow's People (2004) iii. 67 A still more pervasive invasion into our lives will not be a wholesale takeover by an alternative reality so much as an ‘augmented reality’. |
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