AUGMENTATION, or enlargement, a term in heraldry for an addition to a coat of arms; in biology, an addition to the normal number of parts; in Scots Law, an increase of a minister's stipend by an action called "Process of Augmentation." The "Court of Augmentation" in Henry VIII.'s time was established to try cases affecting the suppression of monasteries, and was dissolved in Mary's reign. In music, augmentation is a term signifying that the notes to which it applies are doubled in length, quavers becoming crotchets, crotchets minims, and so on.