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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Improvement \Im*prove"ment\, n. 1. The act of improving; advancement or growth; 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. 2. 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. 3. 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. 4. 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. 5. pl Valuable additions or betterments, as buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises. 6. (Patent Laws) A useful addition to or modification of a machine, manufacture, or composition. --Kent. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: improvement n 1: a change for the better; progress in development [syn: {betterment}, {advance}] 2: the act of improving something: "Their improvements increased the value of the property" 3: a condition superior to an earlier condition: "the new school represents a great improvement" [ant: {decline}]
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