improvement

1 the act of improving something; "their improvements increased the value of the property"

2 a change for the better; progress in development [syn: betterment, advance]

3 a condition superior to an earlier condition; "the new school represents a great improvement" [syn: melioration] [ant: decline]

English

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Noun

1. The act of improving; advancement or growth; promotion in desirable qualities; progress toward what is better; melioration; as, the improvement of the mind, of land, roads, etc.

   "I look upon your city as the best place of improvement." -South.

   "Exercise is the chief source of improvement in all our faculties." -Blair.

2. The act of making profitable use or application of anything, or the state of being profitably employed; a turning to good account; practical application, as of a doctrine, principle, or theory, stated in a discourse.

   "A good improvement of his reason." -S. Clarke.

   "I shall make some improvement of this doctrine." -Tillotson.

3. The state of being improved; betterment; advance; also, that which is improved; as, the new edition is an improvement on the old.

   "The parts of Sinon, Camilla, and some few others, are improvements on the Greek poet." -Addison.

4. Increase; growth; progress; advance.

   "There is a design of publishing the history of architecture, with its several improvements and decays." -Addison.

   "Those vices which more particularly receive improvement by prosperity." -South.

5. (plural): Valuable additions or betterments, as buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises.
6. (Patent Laws): A useful addition to, or modification of, a machine, manufacture, or composition.

Translations

• Czech: zlepšení
• French: amélioration
• German: Verbesserung
• Hebrew: השתלמות
• Romanian: îmbunătăţire

Improve means to make something better. It may also refer to:

Improver

wikt improver

• Bread improver
• Improver Corporation: Improver v Remington, a 1990 United Kingdom patent infringement law court case

Improved

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• Improved clinch knot, a knot
• Most Improved Player, a sports award
• New and improved, a popular advertising slogan
  • New and Improved, a 2001 music album by Mice
• Improved Order of Heptasophs, an 1878 fraternal organization

Technology

• LNWR Improved Precedent Class, a steam locomotive
• Improved-definition television (IDTV)
• Improved Touring, a category of classifications for cars in amateur road racing
• Improved Orion, a sounding rocket

Improvement

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• Improvement Era, magazine of the Church of the Latter-Day Saints from 1897-1970
• Home improvement, the process of renovating or making additions to a home
• Home Improvement, a 1990s television show
• Airport Improvement Fee
• Natural vision improvement

Government

• Improvement commissioners, an early form of government in 18th-century Britain
• Improvement and Development Agency, a 1998 British governmental agency
• Improvement district
• Land improvement
• Improvement district
• Capital Improvement Plan
• Environmental Quality Improvement Act

Healthcare

• Quality improvement organizations
• The Health Improvement Network, a United Kingdom medical database

Organizational

• Achievement Improvement Monitor, an Australian educational testing system
• Improvement trust
• Ontario Swine Improvement
• Organic Crop Improvement Association
• South Improvement Company, a railroad-oil-related Pennsylvania corporation in the early 1870s
• Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League

Business management

• Business Process Improvement
• Continual improvement
• Performance improvement/Performance improvement plan
• Focused improvement
• Quality improvement

Technology

• Network Improvement, in telecommunications
• Preemphasis improvement, in radio
  • FM improvement threshold
  • FM improvement factor
• Improved Multi-Band Excitation, a vocoder
• Improvement Support Systems

See also

• Improv
• Better

Wikipedia

• Wikipedia:Improving Wikipedia
• Wikipedia:Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive
• Article improvement template

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