enhancement

English

Alternative forms

• inhancement (obsolete)

Etymology

From enhance +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈhɑːns.mənt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈhæns.mənt/, /ɛnˈhæns.mənt/

  • Audio (US):

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Noun

enhancement (countable and uncountable, plural enhancements)

1. 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.

2. (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%).

Derived terms

• coenhancement
• dehancement
• disease enhancement
• human enhancement
• hyperenhancement
• hypoenhancement
• immunoenhancement
• isoenhancement
• male enhancement
• neuroenhancement
• nonenhancement
• photoenhancement
• progressive enhancement
• radioenhancement

 

Translations

an improvement

• Basque: hobekuntza
• Bulgarian: подобрение (bg) n (podobrenie), повишение (bg) n (povišenie)
• Dutch: verbetering (nl) f
• Finnish: parannus (fi), lisäys (fi), kohennus
• French: amélioration (fr) f
• German: Verbesserung (de) f, Erweiterung (de) f
• Greek: ενίσχυση (el) (eníschysi)
• Maori: whakareitanga
• Portuguese: melhoria (pt) f, melhoramento (pt) m
• Russian: улучше́ние (ru) n (ulučšénije), увеличе́ние (ru) n (uveličénije), усиле́ние (ru) n (usilénije), повыше́ние (ru) n (povyšénije), приро́ст (ru) m (priróst), соверше́нствование (ru) m (soveršénstvovanije), усоверше́нствование (ru) n (usoveršénstvovanije)
• Spanish: mejora (es) f