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Enrichment

Enrichment \En*rich"ment\, n. The act of making rich, or that which enriches; increase of value by improvements, embellishment, etc.; decoration; embellishment.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
enrichment

1620s, from enrich + -ment.

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enrichment

n. 1 the act of enriching or something enriched 2 the process of making enriched uranium 3 the addition of sugar to grape juice used to make wine; chaptalization

WordNet
enrichment
  1. n. act of making fuller or more meaningful or rewarding

  2. a gift that significantly increases the recipient's wealth

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Enrichment

Enrich may mean:

  • Education.
  • The process of adding nutrients to cereals or grain: see food fortification.
  • The process of adding sugar to grape must during winemaking in order to achieve a higher alcohol content of the wine, more commonly referred to as chaptalization.
  • Behavioral enrichment, the practice of providing animals under managed care with stimuli such as natural and artificial objects.
  • Environmental enrichment (neural), how the brain is affected by the stimulation of its information processing provided by its surroundings
  • The process of enhancing breathing gas for scuba diving (e.g. in Enriched Air Nitrox).
  • Job enrichment, improving work processes and environments so they are more satisfying for employees.
  • Nuclear enrichment, the process of increasing the Uranium-235 content of nuclear fuel in preparation for nuclear power plants or nuclear weapons.
    • The United States Enrichment Corporation, a manufacturer of enriched uranium.
  • Unjust enrichment, in civil law, a term for someone who has benefitted another party with the expectation of compensation, but who has not been justly compensated.
  • The Enrichment Center Percussion Ensemble from the Enrichment Centre in Winston-Salem NC
  • The Living Enrichment Center, a church in Portland, Oregon.
  • The notion of enriched category in mathematics.
  • The analysis of gene product annotations using GO Term Enrichment in biology.
  • The use of an enrichment culture to select for the growth of a particular microorganism.

Usage examples of "enrichment".

This led to the enrichment of the archivolts and imposts with that peculiar type of conventional foliage which characterizes Mahommedan work, and which in this case was carried out by Coptic craftsmen.

It would be the most terrible of misdeeds not to bend every effort of will in persuading you to breed soon and often, that your precious strain may be carried on to the enrichment and glory of the Confederation in coming generations.

If a person overeats as a way of reducing anxiety about a love relationship, the relationship can be worked on, perhaps by talking, getting counseling, or joining a marriage enrichment group.

We shall argue that, in the case of mankind, and pre-eminently in the case of woman, this enrichment and development of the individual life is best and most surely attained by parenthood or foster-parenthood, made self-conscious and provident, and magnificently transmuted by its extension and amplification upon the psychical plane in the education of children and, indeed, the care and ennoblement of human life in all its stages.

Although the intermingling of various linguistic and cultural groups contributed greatly to the enrichment of Islamic civilization, it also was a source of great tension and contributed to the decay of Abbasid power.

As will be seen in our further studies, these concepts prove a welcome enrichment of the language in which we must try to express our readings in nature.

Over the subsequent two decades the group went on to refine its measurements somewhat, to show that relatively short periods of enrichment, even in adult animals, could produce similar changes, and to measure more precisely some of the anatomical changes that occurred.

It would be the most terrible of misdeeds not to bend every effort of will in persuading you to breed soon and often, that your precious strain may be carried on to the enrichment and glory of the Confederation in coming generations.

If a person overeats as a way of reducing anxiety about a love relationship, the relationship can be worked on, perhaps by talking, getting counseling, or joining a marriage enrichment group.

Eisel musicologists adeptly employ the Gaean symbology with a judicious enrichment of specifically local symbols.

Think of the countryside dotted with hundreds, even thousands, of little gold factories, inhabited by thousands, even millions, of little dwarves crapping away for the enrichment of all society!

What shameful Whitehall records might we not have uncovered of hideous episodes in India, in Egypt, in Malaya, inv South Africa, in fact wherever British imperialism carried the Union Jack, and British arms brutally suppressed native populations which resisted being bled dry for Anglo-Saxon enrichment?

Our rooms were rather a good height with a carved cornice and plaster enrichments, but the furnishings were musty and the general air depressing, notwithstanding the effect of a few good mantel ornaments which I have long made it a rule to carry with me.

Even in flatworms there is an enlargement and enrichment of the nerve cord at the head end, therefore.

But in practice, as I hardly need say, the fowlers gave their chiefs only a share of those rarest of feathers, and kept the rest for their own enrichment.