Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Enhancement |
EnhancementNoun1. An improvement that makes something more agreeable. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "enhancement" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Enhancement n. Common marketroid-speak for a bug fix. This abuse of language is a popular and time-tested way to turn incompetence into increased revenue. A hacker being ironic would instead call the fix a feature -- or perhaps save some effort by declaring the bug itself to be a feature. Source: Jargon File. |
Building & Civil Engineering | The act of improving the aesthetic attributes of the physical environment. Source: European Union. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | An increase of the density of charge carriers in a particular region of a semiconductor, usually by a built-in or applied electric field. Source: European Union. (references) |
Medicine | Augmentation, intensification: as induced increase in some chemical or physical property. . Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: EnhancementSynonym: sweetening (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: beautification (building & civil engineering). |
Crosswords: Enhancement |
| English words defined with "enhancement": augmentative ♦ enhancive ♦ xerography. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "enhancement": ACS Coverage Program, Antibody-Dependent Enhancement ♦ beta site ♦ carbon dioxide fertilization, Charcoal, Clonazepam, CMOS crosspoint, Coenzymes, Community Address Updating System, Cosmetic Techniques, Cottonseed Oil Assistance Program ♦ digital signal processing, DLUR/DLUS ♦ early processing, EEP, ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYST ♦ Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996, FLY, Forcing Mechanism ♦ General Sales Manager ♦ image processing, IMDISP ♦ low-level vision, Lymphocyte Cooperation ♦ MOS digital element, MOS switch, MOS switching transistor ♦ P4, PostgreSQL ♦ QUALITY ASSURANCE ANALYST ♦ RFE ♦ SCSI-2, SHADED RELIEF, signal-to-noise ratio scalability, SNOOPS, SNR scalability, Social Facilitation, Sunflower Oil Assistance Program, switching MOST ♦ Uruguay Round Agreements Act of 1994 ♦ X-RAY BURST. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Plus a 20 year old Costa Rican lover and a breast enhancement! (The Naked Truth; writing credit: Scott Bank; Jenny Banks) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title | ||
References | |||
Books |
| ||
Periodicals |
| ||
Theater & Movies | |||
Music |
| ||
High Tech |
| ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Breast imaging technology has changed over the years. Shown are mammography on left and MRI on right. Note MRI's enhancement ability to confirm diagnosis. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Magnetic resonance image (MRI) of individual breast, demonstrating marked enhancement (bright area) which was confirmed to be cancer. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | A member of the Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group cuts holes to place cable in the logs. US Forest Service and Skagit Fisheries Enhancement members cabled all the jams into place. Then, volunteers played an essential role in the restoration by performing pre and post monitoring of the site. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group members secure logs. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | To increase the genetic diversity of U.S. corn, the Germplasm Enhancement for Maize (GEM) project seeks to combine exotic germplasm, such as this unusually colored and shaped maize from Latin America, with domestic corn lines. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller.. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
 |
| "Glasses" by A. Carlos Herrera Commentary: "Optical enhancement system™." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Noise-reduction technologies and enhancement of performance using binaural implants are promising areas. (references) | |
Enhancement of health professional skills can be accomplished through both continuing education courses and self-instruction brochures. (references) | ||
Possible mechanisms include enhancement of iron-induced free radical formation by aluminum and changes in protein structure and function. (references) | ||
Business | Argentina's older irrigated regions need to be upgraded with water saving and yield enhancement systems. (references) | |
Induction of new aircraft in the fleet will also result in enhancement of PIA's ground support equipment. (references) | ||
GPRS is an enhancement of GSM technology and represents a major stepping stone to third-generation mobile technology. (references) | ||
Economic History | Bangladesh | With the suspension of Export Enhancement Program, however, Bangladesh began to purchase lower-cost supplies. (references) |
Georgia | Recent revenue enhancement initiatives have focused on these taxes as the fastest route to address the deficit. (references) | |
Guatemala | As a result of CBI enhancement in October 2000, prospects for continued growth in the textile sector are favorable. (references) | |
Human Rights | Belize | The Youth Enhancement Agency (YEA) houses over 60 youths between the ages of 13 and 25, who participate in rehabilitation and job training programs. (references) |
Minorities | Algeria | In September 1999, President Bouteflika stated that the Amazigh language would never be an official language; during the year he stated that the enhancement of the status of the Amazigh language would require a constitutional amendment. (references) |
Political Economy | Colombia | Renewal and enhancement of the Andean Trade Preference Act, scheduled to expire in December of 2001, is a top Colombian priority. (references) |
Trade | Australia | While other sources might fund project loans, funding is undertaken only on the basis of bank credit enhancement, through a bank guarantee or letter of credit. (references) |
Guinea | There are, however, three regional U.S. Department of Agriculture export promotion programs for which Guinea is eligible: the dairy export incentive program, a GSM-102 credit program, and a wheat export enhancement program. (references) | |
Honduras | The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) provides credit guarantees for a wide range of agricultural and products exported from the United States, as well as export bonuses for selected products under the Export Enhancement Program and the Diary Export Incentive Program. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FLY-:SPECK:, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the systems of punctuation in use by the various literary nations depended originally upon the social habits and general diet of the flies infesting the several countries. These creatures, which have always been distinguished for a neighborly and companionable familiarity with authors, liberally or niggardly embellish the manuscripts in process of growth under the pen, according to their bodily habit, bringing out the sense of the work by a species of interpretation superior to, and independent of, the writer's powers. The "old masters" of literature -- that is to say, the early writers whose work is so esteemed by later scribes and critics in the same language -- never punctuated at all, but worked right along free-handed, without that abruption of the thought which comes from the use of points. (We observe the same thing in children to-day, whose usage in this particular is a striking and beautiful instance of the law that the infancy of individuals reproduces the methods and stages of development characterizing the infancy of races.) In the work of these primitive scribes all the punctuation is found, by the modern investigator with his optical instruments and chemical tests, to have been inserted by the writers' ingenious and serviceable collaborator, the common house-fly -- Musca maledicta. In transcribing these ancient MSS, for the purpose of either making the work their own or preserving what they naturally regard as divine revelations, later writers reverently and accurately copy whatever marks they find upon the papyrus or parchment, to the unspeakable enhancement of the lucidity of the thought and value of the work. Writers contemporary with the copyists naturally avail themselves of the obvious advantages of these marks in their own work, and with such assistance as the flies of their own household may be willing to grant, frequently rival and sometimes surpass the older compositions, in respect at least of punctuation, which is no small glory. Fully to understand the important services that flies perform to literature it is only necessary to lay a page of some popular novelist alongside a saucer of cream-and-molasses in a sunny room and observe "how the wit brightens and the style refines" in accurate proportion to the duration of exposure. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Enhancement" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Enhancement" is used about 390 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 390 | 14,213 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "enhancement": Antibody-Dependent Enhancement ♦ conspicuity enhancement ♦ enhancement MOST ♦ enhancement of value ♦ image enhancement ♦ Radiographic Image Enhancement ♦ revenue enhancement. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "enhancement": edge-enhancement, ego-enhancement, hair-enhancement, health-enhancement, resonance-enhancement, self-enhancement. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "enhancement"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zmadhim (aggrandizement, amplification, augment, enlargement, exaggeration, increase, magnification, overstatement, power, rise, swelling), shtim (accession, accretion, addition, augment, augmentation, build up, extension, gain, growth, inclusion, increase, increment, insertion, intensification, interest, multiplication, proliferation, rise), përmirësim (amelioration, amendment, betterment, development, elevation, improvement, melioration, pickup, progress, rally, reclamation, refinement, reform, reformation, rise, upswing, upturn). (various references) | |
Arabic | تعزيز تقوية, زيادة (addition, augment, augmentation, boost, excess, expansion, growing, increase, increment, over, overflow, overmuch, plethora, plus, raise, redundance, redundancy, rise, superfluity, top up). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | усилване (aggrandizement, amplification, augmentation, exacerbation, increase, intensification), покачване (escalation, increase, raising, rally, rise), повишаване (aggrandizement, increase, promoting, promotion, raising). (various references) | |
Chinese | 改进. (various references) | |
Czech | zvýšení (hike, improvement, increase, increment). (various references) | |
Danish | enhancement, akkumulation (accumulation). (various references) | |
Dutch | enhancement, verrijking (enriching, enrichment, enrichment process). (various references) | |
Finnish | lisäys (addition, growth, increase), korotus (increase, rise). (various references) | |
French | exaltation, embellissement, surcroît, renforcement, mise en valeur, facilitation, décoration, augmentation, accumulation. (various references) | |
German | erweiterung (add-on, aggrandizement, amplification, broadening, dilatation, dilation, enlargement, expander, expansion, extension, extention, increase, interpolation, upgrading, widening), Anreicherung (enlargement, enrichment, fortification), Steigerung (aggravation, build up, comparative, cumulation, escalation, gain, heightening, improvement, increase, increment, intensification, rise). (various references) | |
Greek | συσσώρευση (accumulating, accumulation, agglomeration, amassment, conglomeration, cumulation, hoarding), πύκνωση (condensation, thickening), εμπλουτισμός (beneficiation, dressing, enriching, enrichment, enrichment process, preparation, processing, reinforcement, re-introducing, repopulation, restocking, stocking, supplementing natural regeneration, treatment), απορρόφηση (absorbing, absorption, aspiration, engrossment, immersion, suction). (various references) | |
Hebrew | הגדלה (enlargement, increase, magnification), הגברה (amplification, gain, intensification, reinforcement, strengthening). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fokozás (boost, climax, gradation, rise), erősítés (boost, fortification, gain). (various references) | |
Italian | aumento (addition, advance, aggrandisement, aggrandizement, augmentation, boom, boost, enlargement, gain, growing, increase, raise, raising, rise). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 高揚 (exaltation, promotion, uplift). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | せんよう (adenoid, exclusive use, personal use, using something belonging exclusively to someone else), こうよう (autumn colours, benefit, dazzling brightness, descendant, discharge of filial duties, effect, elements, essentials, exaltation, future generations, government business, great expanse of water, incoherent, maple, outline, posterity, promotion, public expense, public use, unfathomable, uplift, use, utility, yellow leaves), エンハンスメント . (various references) | |
Korean | 증진. (various references) | |
Norwegian | forbedring (improvement), økning (gain, increase, increment). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | enhancementay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | realce (enhance, foil, relief, stress, underling, understrapper, weaken), acumulaçao. (various references) | |
Romanian | exagerare (exaggeration, magnification, stretch, superfluity), sporire (accession, accretion, accrual, accumulation, development, enlargement, increase), intensificare (exaggeration, exaltation, exasperation, intensification, intension, swell). (various references) | |
Russian | усовершенствование (improvement, refinement), улучшение (amelioration, amendment, betterment, improvement, melioration, mending, reclamation, refinement, reformation, upswing, upturn), совершенствование (development, elaboration, perfecting, perfection), расширение (add-on, amplification, dilatation, dilation, distension, distention, enlargement, expansion, extension, spread-out, widening). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | povećanje (augment, augmentation, increase, increment, padding). (various references) | |
Spanish | realce (embossing, embossment, highlight, luster, lustre), perfeccionamiento (improvement, perfecting, perfection, perfectioning), incremento (accession, accretion, augmentation, growth, increase, increment), acrecentamiento (accretion). (various references) | |
Swedish | förbättring (amelioration, amendment, betterment, improvement, melioration, reform, uplift), anrikning (beneficiation, beneficiation of ores, enrichment, enrichment process). (various references) | |
Turkish | artırma (augmentation, boost, build up, economizing, extension, increasing, overbidding, promotion), artırılma, artış (accrual, addition, advance, augmentation, climbing, explosion, increase, increment, jump, raise, rise, rising, step up, up). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | збільшення (accession, accretion, aggrandizement, amplification, augment, augmentation, expanse, gain, increment, magnification), поліпшення (advance, amendment, betterment, improvement, melioration, mend, mending). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự nâng cao (lift), sự làm tăng (exacerbation), sự làm nổi bật sự tăng, sự đề cao (exaltation). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "enhancement": enhancements. (additional references) | |
| |
"Enhancement" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: enchancement, enhacement, enhancenment, enhencement. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "enhancement" (pronounced enha"nsmunt) |
| 7 | -a" n s m u n t | advancement. |
| 6 | -n s m u n t | announcement, commencement, pronouncement. |
| 5 | -s m u n t | assessment, basement, bemusement, impressment, debasement, disbursement, displacement, embarrassment, emplacement, endorsement, enforcement, enticement, harassment, inducement, outplacement, placement, reassessment, reimbursement, reinforcement, replacement. |
| 4 | -m u n t | aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, amendment, amusement, annulment, antigovernment, apartment, appeasement, appointment, apportionment, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, accompaniment, accomplishment, abandonment, abatement, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adjournment, adjustment, adornment, advertisement, advisement, assignment, assortment, astonishment, atonement, attachment, attainment, banishment, battlement, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, bombardment, claimant, Clement, commandment, commitment, compartment, complement, comportment, concealment, condiment, confinement, consignment, containment, contentment, copayment, curtailment, impairment, impeachment, impediment, implement, impoundment, impoverishment, imprisonment, improvement, debarment, deferment, department, deployment, deportment, derailment, detachment, determent, detriment, development, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, discernment, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, divestment, dormant, easement, element, embankment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endowment, engagement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, entitlement, entombment, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, escapement, escarpment, establishment, estrangement, excitement, excrement, experiment, extinguishment, figment, filament, formant, fragment, fulfillment, garment, garnishment, government, incitement, inclement, increment, indictment, informant, infotainment, infringement, installment, instrument, integument, internment, intersegment, investment, involvement, judgement, judgment, ligament, maltreatment, management, measurement, micromanagement, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monument, movement, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nourishment, ointment, ornament, orpiment, overpayment, overstatement, parchment, parliament, pavement, payment, pigment, postponement, postretirement, predicament, prejudgment, prepayment, presentment, procurement, punishment, puzzlement, readjustment, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassignment, recruitment, redeployment, redevelopment, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refurbishment, regiment, reinstatement, reinvestment, repayment, replenishment, requirement, resentment, resettlement, restatement, retirement, retrenchment, rudiment, sacrament, sediment, segment, sentiment, settlement, shipment, statement, supplement, temperament, tenement, testament, tournament, treatment, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, vehement, wonderment. |
| 3 | -u n t | agent, ambient, ambivalent, ancient, antecedent, antidepressant, antioxidant, apparent, applicant, ardent, argent, arrant, arrogant, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, accountant, adherent, adjacent, adjutant, adolescent, afferent, affiant, affluent, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assistant, astringent, attendant, belligerent, beneficent, benevolent, blatant, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, clairvoyant, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, combatant, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, compliant, component, concomitant, concurrent, confident, confluent, consequent, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, contaminant, contestant, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impatient, impertinent, important, impotent, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, decongestant, defendant, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, dependent, depressant, descendant, descendent, despondent, detergent, determinant, deterrent, deviant, different, diligent, discordant, disinfectant, disobedient, dispersant, dissident, dissonant, distant, divalent, divergent, docent, dominant, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, elephant, eloquent, emergent, emigrant, eminent, entrant, equivalent, errant, esculent, evanescent, evident, excellent, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, exponent, extant, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, gallant, giant, grandiloquent, grandparent, hesitant, hydrant, incessant, incident, incipient, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, incumbent, indecent, independent, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, indulgent, inefficient, infant, infrequent, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, instant, insufficient, insurgent, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, merchant, migrant, militant, miscreant, monovalent, mordant, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nonresident, nonviolent, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, outpatient, overconfident, oxidant, pageant, parent, participant, patent, patient, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, piquant, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prescient, present, prevalent, proficient, prominent, propellant, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, pursuant, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, reagent, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recurrent, redundant, refrigerant, Regent, registrant, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repellent, repentant, repugnant, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, resultant, resurgent, retardant, reticent, reverent, rodent, ruminant, salient, seafront, sealant, semipermanent, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, talent, tangent, tenant, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-e-h-m-n-n-n-t" | |
-3 letters: menthene. | |
-4 letters: canteen, cementa, enchant, enhance, machete, manchet, methane. | |
-5 letters: achene, anthem, cement, cetane, ethane, ethene, hetman, manche, menace, neaten, tenace, thecae, thence. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-e-h-m-n-n-n-t" | |
+1 letter: enhancements. | |
+3 letters: nonachievement. | |
+4 letters: enfranchisement, nonachievements. | |
+5 letters: enfranchisements. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Images: Digital Art 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
