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Wikipedia has [augmented]: The English language was introduced to the Americas by the arrival of the English, beginning in the late 16th century [when the form would be that of the KJV etc, Early Modern English [EME]. Note that since then, 'BrE' has hardly been static itself!

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Which is the preferred preposition to use after the word "augmented", as in the sentence "A is augmented with/by B"? Does this depend on context? For concreteness, I am interested in mathematical ...

From Google's definition: aug ment verb ôɡˈment/ 1. make (something) greater by adding to it; increase. "he augmented his summer income by painting houses" When you use augment, you mean that you are adding to something by adding in something else; the word is generally used with a prepositional phrase starting with by or with. Increase doesn't have that sense. Now, to your example. If the ...

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In the case of something like "This product features an Augmented Filter Subsystem (AFS)", I would normally capitalise it like that (and include the bracketed abbreviation) on the first reference. I think using such a convention makes it just that little bit easier for the reader to recognise what the abbreviation refers to.

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I tend to use the rule that colons should only be before a list, or as an augmented period to indicate that the second part defines or gives an example of the first.

When a female is described as pneumatic it means she has large breasts (possibly artificially augmented by plastic surgery). To my mind, there's also the implication of her being

Increased as a past participle merely means augmented relative to some prior value, e.g., a car traveling at 20 mph that was previously going at 10 mph. Increasing means that the rate has been going up, and continues to go up.