11 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 usage, as in the "The set is augmented with redundant vectors for greater numerical robustness".
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.
If a person is very social in a party, striking up conversations with different people from one end of the hall to the other end, are there some good expressions to describe this person? In Chinese...
The word "by" is a versatile preposition in English, having had over a thousand years since it came to us from Old English to develop its meanings. The OED places 39 major meanings, both literal and figurative, in seven categories, which I paraphrase below: I. Of position in space, near or adjacent: "stand by " II. Of motion: along, alongside: " by road" III. Of time. at, in, on, etc.: " by ...
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.
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.
Both sources below attest that the correct more common spelling is soup-up. Suped-up and sooped-up are are just misspellings. The expression is AmE in origin and it most likely derives from supercharge: As World Wide Words notes: Souped-up is known both in the UK and the US and was actually created in the latter country. It’s one of the longer-lived slang terms, still widely used. In its ...
Your #3 here awkwardly piles passive on passive. And in #4 the active started seems to attribute active agency, incongruously, to something that within the same sentence is passively to be built. But #1 and #2 are both fine. The difference between them is a matter of ellipsis.
The evaluation of conduct involves some amount of generalization. [here, the non-count usage allows for generalisation in the strict sense† to be applied in certain cases] Vocabulary.com also allows for the gradeable, looser definition, but the examples it gives are for the strict sense (again, slightly augmented): generalization
