enhancement

English

Alternative forms

• inhancement (obsolete)

Etymology

enhance +‎ -ment

Noun

enhancement (countable and uncountable, plural enhancements)

1. Improvement.

   Antonym: dehancement

   The original product, with its simplistic design, has undergone many enhancements over the years.

2. (radiology) The degree to which the image of a scan stands out as a bright area.
   • 2016, Nuzhat A. Ahmad, Management of Pancreatic Diseases:

     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%).

Derived terms

• dehancement
• hyperenhancement
• hypoenhancement
• isoenhancement

Translations

an improvement

• Basque: hobekuntza
• Bulgarian: подобрение (bg) ? (podobrenie), повишение (bg) n (povišenie)
• Dutch: verbetering (nl) f
• Finnish: parannus (fi), lisäys (fi), kohennus
• French: amélioration (fr) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Verbesserung (de) f, Erweiterung (de) f
• Maori: whakareitanga
• Portuguese: melhoria (pt) f, melhoramento (pt) m
• Russian: улучше́ние (ru) n (ulučšénije), увеличе́ние (ru) n (uveličénije), усиле́ние (ru) n (usilénije), повыше́ние (ru) n (povyšénije), приро́ст (ru) m (priróst), соверше́нствование (ru) m (soveršénstvovanije)
• Spanish: mejora (es) f