enhancement
English
Alternative forms
- inhancement (obsolete)
Etymology
enhance + -ment
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪnˈhɑːns.mənt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɪnˈhæns.mənt/, /ɛnˈhæns.mənt/
Audio (US) (file)
Noun
enhancement (countable and uncountable, plural enhancements)
- An improvement or supplement that tends to increase a sense of esteem.
- Antonym: dehancement
- The original product, with its simplistic design, has undergone many enhancements over the years.
- 2021 July 14, “Modern Images”, in RAIL, number 935, page 37, photo caption:
- Dawn mist rolling off the adjacent North Downs creates a sepia effect over the river with no need for digital enhancement.
- (radiology) The degree to which the image of a scan stands out as a bright area.
- 2016, Nuzhat A. Ahmad, Management of Pancreatic Diseases:
- The enhancement characteristics of a PNET on CT may also have prognostic value, as lesions that hypoenhance on CT scan tend to have worse overall survival than lesions that are isoenhancing or hyperenhancing (5-year survival 54% vs 89% vs 93%).
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Derived terms
- coenhancement
- dehancement
- disease enhancement
- human enhancement
- hyperenhancement
- hypoenhancement
- immunoenhancement
- isoenhancement
- male enhancement
- neuroenhancement
- nonenhancement
- photoenhancement
- progressive enhancement
- radioenhancement
Translations
an improvement
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