augmenting 使扩张
- A peptide hormone, produced by the thyroid gland in human beings, that lowers plasma calcium and phosphate levels without augmenting calcium accretion.
降钙素一种缩氨酸荷尔蒙,由人体内的甲状腺产生。在不增加钙含量的情况下,可降低血中钙和磷酸盐的含量 - His power is augmenting daily.
他的势力与日俱增。
Augment \Aug*ment"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Augmented}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Augmenting}.] [L. augmentare, fr. augmentum an
increase, fr. augere to increase; perh. akin to Gr. ?, ?, E.
wax, v., and eke, v.: cf. F. augmenter.]
1. To enlarge or increase in size, amount, or degree; to
swell; to make bigger; as, to augment an army by
re["e]forcements; rain augments a stream; impatience
augments an evil.
But their spite still serves
His glory to augment. --Milton.
2. (Gram.) To add an augment to.
- Satellite links will transmit information between the two capitals, augmenting an existing telecommunications hotline.
- With private funds and local tax support augmenting limited USDA funds, the cooperative extension system grew.
- The system, AT&T said, will relieve the host countries of augmenting their telephone systems to accommodate the 240 reporters expected to accompany Bush on the July 9-18 trip to Poland, Hungary, France and the Netherlands.
- A spokesman said more hospitals and private physicians are either replacing their CAT scanners, which provide computer-enhanced X-rays of body organs, or are augmenting those machines with magnetic resonance scanners.
- "We don't see this as new leadership but augmenting existing leadership," said Tom Sanger, the Pacific Enterprises spokesman.