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词汇 refinement
释义 refinement
noun
uk /rɪˈfaɪn.mənt/ us /rɪˈfaɪn.mənt/

refinementnoun (CHANGE)


[ U ]
the process of making a substance pure: 提炼;提纯;精炼
The refinement of raw opium yields other drugs, such as morphine.生鸦片经过提炼产生其他药物,如吗啡。
[ C or U ]
a small change that improves something: (精细的)改进,完善
These refinements have increased the machine's accuracy by 25 percent.经过这些改进,机器的准确率提高了25%。
Clearly, the hypothesis does need some refinement, in the light of these surprising results.很显然,从这些令人惊讶的结果来看,该假设确实需要进一步完善。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Correcting and mending
calibration
clean (someone/something) up
correction
fiddle (around) with something
fine-tune
mess
reconstruct
reconstruction
recover
rectifiable
rectification
refine
remedy
revised
scratch
smooth something away
smoothen
sort
sort something out
troubleshoot

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:


Industrial processing
Becoming better
Changing

refinementnoun (POLITENESS)


[ U ]
a quality of politeness and education: 文雅;高雅;有教养
She's the personification of culture and refinement.她是文化与教养的化身。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Manners & levels of formality
button-down
buttoned-up
casualization
ceremonious
ceremoniously
formally
genteel
genteelly
genteelness
gentility
grace
non-formal
non-U
not the done thingidiom
over-familiar
propriety
solemnity
valediction
valedictory
without ceremony

refinement | American Dictionary


refinement
noun[ C/U ]
us/rɪˈfɑɪn·mənt/
the process of improving something:
[ C ]The accuracy of the machine has been increased through a number of refinements.
[ U ]The refinement of sugar cane produces sugar.
Refinement also means means the quality of politeness seen in someone's behavior:
[ U ]She grew up in a home environment of culture and refinement.

refinement | Business English


refinement
noun
uk /rɪˈfaɪnmənt/us
[ U ] PRODUCTION
the process of making a substance pure:
The refinement of raw opium yields other drugs, such as morphine.
[ C or U ]
a small change that improves something:
These refinements have increased the machine's accuracy by 25%.
Long-term cost reductions will be achieved through the refinement of operations.

Examples of refinement


refinement
The influence of these refinements on the conductivity of gold is illustrated figure 1!.
By 1750 law enforcement was still overshadowed by the gallows, but it had acquired many refinements, not least in its preventative and investigative functions.
With the benefit of these refinements, single females in the younger age category emerge as more likely selecting lower risk investment choices in this study.
In the first, the different structures represent independent refinements against the raw data and do not ' see ' each other.
Having established the benefits of the linear programming approach over value iteration, we now turn to refinements on the linear programming algorithm, namely, constraint generation.
In this way, we are losing verbal harmonies and comedy as surely as we are losing refinements of meaning through the spread of malapropisms.
In the first part of the twentieth century, there were crucial refinements in concepts and measurements of information.
Here, as in any case, they begin with the models, preabstracted objects, and use selective observations to justify refinements.
There are several refinements to this organisation which enrich the possible readings of the various spaces.
Obviously, one cannot introduce tectonic refinements, however modest, if the sole logic of the enterprise is to build as cheaply as possible no matter what.
We construct such a family using refinements of the classical cutting and stacking methods.
Of course, it is now clear that, mathematically, these additional refinements are unjustified within the uniformly valid approximation.
Underlying self-regulatory processes are refinements in cortical neurobiology.
In this paper, we will propose refinements of our recursive method above.
Then we add some refinements originating in probabilistic number theory (see [9]).
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