enhancement

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  1. The act of enhancing, or the state of being enhanced; increase in degree or extent; augmentation; aggravation: as, the enhancement of value, price, enjoyment, pleasure, beauty, evil, grief, punishment, crime, etc. Their yearly rents … are not to this day improved at all, the landlords making no less gain by fines and income then there is raised in other places by enhancement of rents. Bacon, Office of Alienations. Jocular slanders have, from the slightness of the temptation, an enhancement of guilt. Government of the Tongue.

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  • It was experimentally verified that this enhancement is around 10\% FWHM for a 22Na point-like source achieving an image spatial resolution of 470 mum FWHM. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • A tremendous enhancement has been the completion of a weight room just off the Coliseum floor, where Mountaineer student-athletes can take advantage of the last in high-tech equipment to gain a total body workout. —  MSNsportsNET.com Featured Content
  • A further workflow enhancement is the ability to adjust convergence �?? horizontal, vertical, or rotational - dynamically during editorial using 3D Active MetadataTM controls in CineForm's First Light 3D, a technique which simplifies and reduces costs associated with a 3D conform.
  • Rather than design its own loudness enhancement, auto-setup program, or video-processing chip, a company like Onkyo will license one of these goodies from THX, —  Home Theater RSS Feed
  • Seguin has long had an interest in historical murals as a potential community enhancement, and McCarthy's mural comes in a year and in a neighborhood where a lot of exciting community enhancements have recently taken place. —  The Gazette-Enterprise: News
 

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