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improvement

noun
/ɪmˈpɹuːvmənt/

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman emprouwement. By surface analysis, improve + -ment.

  1. derived from emprouwement

Definitions

  1. The act of improving

    The act of improving; advancement or growth; a bettering

    • November 9, 1662, Robert South, Of the Creation of Man in the Image of God I look upon your city as […] the best place of improvement.
    • Exercise is the chief source of improvement in all our faculties.

  2. The act of making profitable use or application of anything, or the state of being…

    The act of making profitable use or application of anything, or the state of being profitably employed; practical application, for example of a doctrine, principle, or theory, stated in a discourse.

    • good improvement of his reason.
    • I shall make some improvement of this doctrine.

  3. The state of being improved

    The state of being improved; betterment; advance

  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. Something which is improved

      • the new edition is an improvement on the old.
      • The decade has seen vast improvements in techniques.
      • The parts of Sinon, Camilla, and some few others, are improvements on the Greek poet.

    2. Increase

      Increase; growth; progress; advance.

      • Those vices which more particularly receive improvement by prosperity.

    3. Valuable additions or betterments, for example buildings, clearings, drains, fences,…

      Valuable additions or betterments, for example buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises.

    4. A useful addition to, or modification of, a machine, manufacture, or composition.

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Derived

disimprovement, home improvement, Kaldor-Hicks improvement, misimprovement, nonimprovement, overimprovement, Pareto-improvement, Pareto improvement, pseudoimprovement, require improvement, tomahawk improvement, unimprovement

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at improvement. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at improvement. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at improvement

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA