Medical Simulation Terms

verb to make something greater by adding to it

• The company decided to augment their workforce by hiring additional employees.
• I'm thinking of augmenting my wardrobe with some new clothes.
• Let's augment our squad by adding some new members.
• Music has the power to augment our emotions and bring us to tears.

noun the act of imitating the operation of a real-world process or system over time

• The engineers used a simulation to predict the effects of the new design.
• We ran a simulation to see if our plan would work.
• I totally aced that simulation for my driving test.
• Life sometimes feels like a simulation that we're all just trying to navigate.