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  1. transitive verb To make greater, as in value, beauty, or effectiveness; augment.
  2. transitive verb To provide with improved, advanced, or sophisticated features: computer software enhanced with cutting-edge functionalities.

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  • "Closing gaps in skills, knowledge and tools are critical for enabling PMOs to meet these challenges and enhance organisational project performance." —  gantthead.com
  • Holograms are based on interference patterns-when anything that travels as a wave interacts with a similar wave, the two create areas of where the peaks and troughs enhance or cancel each other. —  Ars Technica
  • You won't see any difference in picture details (sometimes, the flaws of the tape "enhance" and shows, so visually it might even show less good that way, believe me!). —  VideoHelp.com Forum
  • S23T: $135; S34T: $155; S35T: $175 www. enhance-tech.com
  • Wondering if one might claim a high (or low) number to enhance or otherwise position the perception of a film. —  FlickFilosopher.com
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English enhauncen, from Anglo-Norman enhauncer, variant of Old French enhaucier, from Vulgar Latin *inaltiāre, from Late Latin inaltāre : Latin in-, causative pref.; see en-1 + Latin altus, high; see al-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also inhance; early modern English also enhaunce, enhaunse, from Middle English enhauncen, generally with s, enhaunsen, enhansen, also, with altered prefix, anhansen, and without prefix, haunsen, etc. (see hance); also rarely enhawsen: from Old French enhauncer, enhaunsier, enhaucer, enhaucier, enhalcer, from en- + haucer, haucier, French hausser = Provencal alsar, ausar = Spanish alzar = Italian alzare, raise, from Old French halt, haut, French haut, etc., from Latin altus, high (see haughty, altitude); the forms with n (Old French enhauncer, etc.) being apparently due to association with Provencal enansar, enanzar, promote, further, from enant, before, rather, from Latin in + ante, before. Cf. Provencal avant, French avant, etc., before, from Latin ab + ante (later ult. English advance, equivalent to enhance): see avant, avaunt, advance.
 

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