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enhancement

UK/ɪnˈhɑːns.mənt//ɪnˈhæns.mənt/

enhancement noun: an improvement or supplement that tends to increase a sense of esteem.

Noun

enhancement (countable and uncountable, plural enhancements)

  1. An improvement or supplement that tends to increase a sense of esteem.
    • The original product, with its simplistic design, has undergone many enhancements over the years.
    • Dawn mist rolling off the adjacent North Downs creates a sepia effect over the river with no need for digital enhancement.2021 July 14, “Modern Images”, in RAIL, number 935, page 37, photo caption
    Antonyms:
    dehancement
  2. The degree to which the image of a scan stands out as a bright area.
    • 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%).2016, Nuzhat A. Ahmad, Management of Pancreatic Diseases

enhancement meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Malayalam

enhancement in Hindi

an improvement
वृद्धि vŕddhi, वर्धन vardhan

enhancement in Tamil

அதிகமாக்கல், உயர்த்தல், உயர்த்துதல், அதிகரிக்கச் செய்தல், மிகைப்படுத்தல், மேன்மை செய்தல்

enhancement in Bengali

বৃদ্ধি, বর্ধন

enhancement in Malayalam

മെച്ചപ്പെടുത്തൽ, ഉയർത്തൽ
More languagesFewer languages
enhancement in Kannada
ವರ್ಧನೆ

Examples of enhancement in a sentence

  • The small company used their old product with a few kludged enhancements as a stopgap until they could develop a new product.
  • Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) is a suite of real-time deep learning image enhancement and upscaling technologies developed by Nvidia that are available in a number of video games.
  • NR's planned work bank of renewals and enhancements is also currently being risk-assessed.

All 40 example sentences with enhancement

Antonyms of enhancement

Forms of enhancement

pluralenhancements
alternative form (obsolete)inhancement

Plural of enhancement: enhancements

Origin of enhancement

From enhance + -ment.

Words formed from enhancement

Questions about enhancement

What does enhancement mean?
Enhancement means an improvement or supplement that tends to increase a sense of esteem.
What is enhancement in Hindi?
Enhancement in Hindi is वृद्धि (vŕddhi), वर्धन (vardhan). See Enhancement meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is enhancement?
Enhancement is a noun.
How do you pronounce enhancement?
Enhancement is pronounced /ɪnˈhɑːns.mənt/ (UK).
What is the plural of enhancement?
The plural of enhancement is enhancements.

Words near enhancement in the dictionary

  1. Enhanced Fujita scale
  2. enhanced interrogation
  3. enhanced interrogation technique
  4. enhanced interrogation techniques
  5. enhanced interrogations
  6. enhancement
  7. enhancements
  8. enhanceosome
  9. enhanceosomes
  10. enhancer
  11. enhancer RNA

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: enhancement (page history and authors); enhancement (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); enhancement (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); enhancement (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); enhancement (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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