disaugment
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]disaugment (third-person singular simple present disaugments, present participle disaugmenting, simple past and past participle disaugmented)
- (uncommon) To perform the opposite of augmentation upon.
- Antonym: augment
- 1808, Christopher Harvey, The school of the heart, […] , page 219:
- I find that everlasting treasure / Which force deprives not, fortune disaugments not; / […]
- 1970, The American Economic Review:
- Labor is being disaugmented, so wage rates and incomes per capita are falling. Thus the rate of population growth will be falling . Although the effective supply of land is growing at the same rate as the effective supply of labor […]
- 2008, Harry Ward Richardson, Peter Gordon, James Elliott Moore, Natural Disaster Analysis After Hurricane Katrina: Risk Assessment, Economic Impacts and Social Implications, Edward Elgar Publishing:
- First, is the shock labour- or capital- 'disaugmenting'? To the extent that it destroys buildings and structures, the shock is capital-disaugmenting, reducing the rate of return and the incentive to invest.
- 2011 January 4, Stuart Reeves, Designing Interfaces in Public Settings: Understanding the Role of the Spectator in Human-Computer Interaction, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 54:
- Another aspect highlighted in the second vignette is that participation even without discrepancies, as seen in the first vignette, involves participants exploiting an alternately 'augmented' or 'disaugmented' view.