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Perfect and augmented intervals.

In music, notation of a musical figure in larger time values, used in counterpoint in order to combine it with the same figure in smaller time values.



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She compromised on an augmentation of her territory, twenty million dollars' indemnity in money, and peace.
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
They seem still to aim at things repugnant and irreconcilable; at an augmentation of federal authority, without a diminution of State authority; at sovereignty in the Union, and complete independence in the members.
Federalist Papers Authored by Alexander Hamilton by Hamilton, Alexander View in context
, that the new landlord gave them their choice of any of the rooms in the house, without the least augmentation of rent, upon condition of their giving instant possession of the two small chambers they at present inhabited.
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