majorations

Noun

majoration (countable and uncountable, plural majorations)

1. (obsolete) Increase; enlargement.
   • there be five ways (in general) of majoration in sounds: inclosure simple; inclosure with dilatation; communication; reflexion concurrent; and approach to the sensory.1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “II. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William...
2. The establishment of conditions for an upper bound of an expression.
   • […] we could in Theorem 5.1.5 (respectively, Theorem 5.1.10) require only the continuity condition if we strengthened the majoration condition (respectively, local majoration condition) to the strict majoration condition (respectively, local strict majoration condition).2001, Anatolii Puhalskii, Large Deviations and Idempotent Probability, page 359
3. A markup on an import or export.
   • The appraiser advanced the item for majoration from 10 per cent to 15 per cent because the exporter had added 15 per cent majoration to some other invoices. An official of the exporting company explained that the difference in majoration was accounted for not on account of the quantity sold but by...1927, U.S. Customs Court Reappraisement Circulars, page 95