enhance
The company also announced enhancements to three of its online databases.
He is the developer of a system that is used for light enhancement in theatrical and showroom situations.
Big drug companies have shied from cognitive enhancement.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Making things better
add salt to somethingidiom
allay
alleviate
alleviation
ameliorate
cultivate
liven (something) up
lubricate
make a differenceidiom
make a world of differenceidiom
make someone/something over
remedial
restructure
revamp
revitalize
revivify
revolutionize
salve
sharpen
tonic

enhancement | Business English

enhancement
noun[ C or U ]
uk /ɪnˈhɑːnsmənt/ us /ɪnˈhænsmənt/
a change, or a process of change, that improves something or increases its value:
We have made many enhancements to the software that will strengthen system security.
They plan to release a series of new products and product enhancements.
performance/productivity enhancementThe measures are intended to be incentives for performance enhancement.
earnings/pension/revenue enhancement

Examples of enhancement

enhancement
Let's ask them : definitions of quality of life and its enhancement among people aged 65 and over.
Image enhancements were realized by greyscale-stretching by 5%.
The same treatment in the second context is enhancement, because it builds on, by the relevant contextual standards, a foundation of normalcy.
There may be ways in which genetic enhancement can achieve greater justice, but other routes should not be excluded.
Enhancement of high-order harmonic generation efficiency from solid sur face plasma by controlling the electron density gradient of a picosecond laser produced plasmas.
The fact is, we do not have sufficient information to assess fully the risks and benefits of social policies that permit genetic enhancement of offspring.
With an infant, parents were told to let the baby play regularly on the floor level for stimulation and enhancement of motor development.
The skills of ethnography are enhancements of skills all nor mal persons employ in ever yday life.
It was found that mystical experiences promoted transcendent wisdom, but that the effect was moderated by self-enhancement values of power, status and achievement.
Furthermore, we often go beyond merely treating clearly defined diseases and actually allow enhancement of our children in the medical setting.
We will need later yet the following enhancement of the notion we have just introduced.
Can semantic relatedness explain the enhancement of memory for emotional words?
The centrality and salience of the peer group for girls is important for programs of health promotion and enhancement.
This coincides with the sharp enhancement of in-house capacity and capability to assist borrowers on environmental project and programme formulation.
Moreover, these enhancements had been circulating for years without an adequate supporting experimental evaluation.
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Collocations withenhancement

enhancement

These are words often used in combination with enhancement.

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contrast enhancement
The value of u is critical to the contrastenhancement and noise suppression of the preprocessing layer.
enhancement factor
In this way, the reduction factor is completely compensated by the enhancement factor (vp/v)2 due to the collective surface plasmon polaritons.
enhancement technique
The enhancementtechnique, coupled with attention to meaning, therefore leads to more generalizable, non-item-specific learning than the memorization encouraged in the implicit condition.
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