improvement

Plural

improvements

1. 1.The act of improving; advancement or growth; a bettering

   • Exercise is the chief source of improvement in all our faculties.

2. 2.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.

   • I shall make some improvement of this doctrine.

3. 3.The state of being improved; betterment; advance

4. 4.Something which is improved

   • The decade has seen vast improvements in techniques.
   • The parts of Sinon, Camilla, and some few others, are improvements on the Greek poet.
   • Here 12..B-B3 as in Fischer-Geller is quite necessary. Black intended an improvement on this variation but received bad advice on his pre-analysis.

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Rare

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Antonyms

• decline

Word family

• improve