Crossword clues for enhancement
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, from enhance + -ment.
Wiktionary
alt. an improvement n. an improvement
WordNet
n. an improvement that makes something more agreeable [syn: sweetening]
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, adding hydrogen to conventional hydrocarbon fuel in an attempt to improve the fuel economy and/or power output of an internal combustion engine
- Input enhancement, a technique for teaching a language to non-native speakers
- Seed enhancement, pre-sowing treatment to improve seed performance
- Self-enhancement, an overly positive self-assessment
- Sexual enhancement, sex toy
Human body enhancement:
- Breast enhancement, breast enlargement or contouring
- Cleavage enhancement, an increase in the definition of breast cleavage
- Genetic enhancement, the use of genetic engineering to modify a person's nonpathological human traits
- Human enhancement, augmentation of the human body to increase capability
- Male enhancement, a euphemism for penis enlargement
Image enhancement:
- Edge enhancement, an image-processing filter that increases the contrast of shape borders to improve its acutance (apparent sharpness)
- Image enhancement, improvement to perceived image quality
- Shadow and highlight enhancement, an image processing technique to correct exposure
Acoustical signal enhancement:
- Acoustic enhancement, the augmentation of direct, reflected, or reverberant sound waves without resorting to electronic sound reinforcement
- Blip enhancement, an electronic warfare technique used to fool radar
- Forensic audio enhancement, the scientific analysis and improvement of audio clarity, especially to improve intelligibility
- Orchestral enhancement, using orchestration techniques, architecture, or electronic sound reinforcement to modify the sound of a live musical performance
- Speech enhancement, the improvement of speech quality via audio signal processing
Software enhancement:
- Progressive enhancement, a web application design that provides a usable experience to users of a broad spectrum of web browsers, but gives additional features to users of more sophisticated web browsers
- Software enhancement, a proposed or newly added software feature
- Web enhancement, official downloadable content published via the World Wide Web for a video game
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.