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 ...
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.
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.
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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