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Answer for the clue "An improvement that makes something more agreeable ", 11 letters:
enhancement

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Word definitions for enhancement in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. an improvement that makes something more agreeable [syn: sweetening ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Enhancement \En*hance"ment\, n. The act of increasing, or state of being increased; augmentation; aggravation; as, the enhancement of value, price, enjoyments, crime.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Enhancement may refer to: Antibody-dependent enhancement , an increase in viral infection facilitated by the host's own antibodies Diamond enhancement , a treatment that improves the gemological characteristics of a natural diamond Hydrogen fuel enhancement ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, from enhance + -ment .

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. an improvement n. an improvement

Usage examples of enhancement.

Enhancement man wants you and me to go to Detroit, meet up with Cher, and go looking for White Night.

The enhancement is placed subcutaneously near the foramen magnum, in a cushioned hyperimmune sheath.

His part of town was old enough that it looked glitzy even without virtual enhancements.

A course of streptomycin injections along with gamma globulin and T-cell enhancement will confer temporary immunity and can be started as little as twelve hours before exposure.

The elusive specter had apparently never had sufficient identity for a legend to crystallize about it, and after a time the Boynes had laughingly set the matter down to their profit-and-loss account, agreeing that Lyng was one of the few houses good enough in itself to dispense with supernatural enhancements.

Repeated exposure of an animal to the same odorant, in small doses, leads to great enhancement of acuity, suggesting the possibility that new receptor sites are added to the cells.

Nontechnical introduction to theories of annular enhancement and zone-plating and their applications in high-resolution laser holography.

For a while, little was produced, although they did find some major antiviral agents and sufficient DNA-based cures for genetic defects and diseases and for the enhancement of plants and animals to feed an ever more populous world that in fact paid their budget and more.

They require analysis, rectification, enhancement, reanalysis, and correlation with everything else we know about the universe.

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Transcendent enhancements, but when the refitting was complete, the ship would be something extraordinary: Now it floated in a golden haze of structors, billions of tiny robots regrowing sections of the hull into the characteristic form of a bottom lugger.

There is no reason in our quest for amplified states of Being that we cannot acculturate the enhancement, technique and knowledge of love to a more sophisticated degree than the culture of militarism has carried the strategies of conflict.

We see it in our failure to pursue nanotech research, in our fear of biotechnological enhancement techniques, in the resistance to the Mars mission.

She had had a lot of enhancements, most of which DeRicci found creepier than the Wygnin.

French doors in your office, resulting in an enhancement to the size and frequency of the famous Chatterford soiree.