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inhancement

inhancement is the obsolete form of enhancement.

Meaning of enhancement

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.
    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

Forms of inhancement

pluralinhancements

Origin of inhancement

From inhance + -ment.

Questions about inhancement

What is inhancement the obsolete form of?
Inhancement is the obsolete form of enhancement.

Words near inhancement in the dictionary

  1. inhaleth
  2. inhaling
  3. inhalings
  4. Inhambane
  5. inhance
  6. inhancement
  7. inhancements
  8. inhances
  9. inharmonic
  10. inharmonical
  11. inharmonically

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