Augmentor
a person or thing that augments.
Aviation, Rocketry. any auxiliary device, as an afterburner, for additional thrust from the exhaust of a jet or rocket engine.
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a member of a Roman Catholic congregation founded in 1847 in France, engaged in missionary and educational work.