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Noun
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- The act of improve|improving; advancement or growth; promote|promotion in desirable qualities; progress toward what is better; melioration; as, the improvement of the mind, of land, roads, etc.
#:"I look upon your city as the best place of improvement." -South.
#:"Exercise is the chief source of improvement in all our faculties." -Blair.
- The act of making profitable use or applicaton of anything, or the state of being profitably employed; a turning to good account; practical application, as of a doctrine, principle, or theory, stated in a discourse.
#:"A good improvement of his reason." -S. Clarke.
#:"I shall make some improvement of this doctrine." -Tillotson.
- The state of being improved; betterment; advance; also, that which is improved; as, the new edition is an improvement on the old.
#:"The parts of Sinon, Camilla, and some few others, are improvements on the Greek poet." -Addison.
- Increase; growth; progress; advance.
#:"There is a design of publishing the history of architecture, with its several improvements and decays." -Addison.
#:"Those vices which more particularly receive improvement by prosperity." -South.
- (plural): Valuable additions or betterments, as buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises.
- (Patent Laws): A useful addition to, or modification of, a machine, manufacture, or composition.
Translations
German: t-|de|Verbesserung|f
Hebrew: t|he|�שת���ת|alt�ִשְ�תַּ�ְּ��ּת|trhishtalmút|sc=Hebr f
Romanian: t-|ro|îmbun�t�ţire|f
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