augmenting

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JavaScript for web development should merely be a scripting language, augmenting the functionality of your web page.

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Quick take

(transitive) To increase; to make larger or supplement.

Meaning at a glance

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verb

(transitive) To increase; to make larger or supplement.

verb

(intransitive, reflexive) To grow; to increase; to become greater.

verb

(music) To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone).

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for augmenting.

verb

(transitive) To increase; to make larger or supplement.

See also: increasing, building, augmentative

verb

(intransitive, reflexive) To grow; to increase; to become greater.

See also: increasing, building, augmentative

verb

(music) To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone).

See also: increasing, building, augmentative

verb

(grammar, transitive) To add an augment to.

See also: increasing, building, augmentative

Example sentences

JavaScript for web development should merely be a scripting language, augmenting the functionality of your web page.

So, people with prosthetics or cochlear implants would be cyborgs, but simply augmenting your brain wouldn't count.

Perhaps by that stage, the cultural stigmas associated with augmenting appearances will have weakened sufficiently so that everyone does it.

And part of this has been augmenting my blog [0] with some biology writing.

With regards efficiency, I think it's not about replacing the large centralised turbines but augmenting the house's existing solar.

I, for one, am giddy at the idea of augmenting our senses to all be super-sighted tetrachromats.

The future of the internet is not wikipedia, it's augmenting our own biases enough that our egos aren't catastrophically challenged every day while feeding ourselves just the right of to-each-of-us contrarian opinions to grow.

We will be augmenting our own intelligence in step with AI progress.

The GP merely points out that humans have been augmenting our natural locomotion for a long time; that's not a criticism of the developers.

Streak's InboxSDK is the missing link to augmenting gmail's functionality.

Multiple programming paradigms has nothing to do with computers and systems, and everything to do with human-machine interface and augmenting the capabilities of humans through computers.

As we develop AI, I see it naturally augmenting the Corporation's ability to make decisions, eventually supplanting humans in the high-order strategic planning.

Quote examples

We do not speak of isolated clever tricks that help in particular situations." This essay, by comparison, likes that computers can be used to "trad[e] understanding for extreme speed of execution." That sounds more like an isolated clever trick for computations, rather than the heart and soul of augmenting human intellect.

Engelbart's "Augmenting Human Intellect" (1962) was a big influence of the idea that computers, which were mostly used for computations, should be seen as a "increasing the capability of a man to approach a complex problem situation, to gain comprehension to suit his particular needs, and to derive solutions to problems.