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improvement

/im-proov-muhnt/US // ɪmˈpruv mənt //UK // (ɪmˈpruːvmənt) //

改善,改进,完善,改进工作

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an act of improving or the state of being improved.
    • : a change or addition by which a thing is improved.
    • : a person or thing that represents an advance on another in excellence or achievement: The new landlord is a great improvement over his greedy predecessor.
    • : a bringing into a more valuable or desirable condition, as of land or real property; betterment.
    • : something done or added to real property that increases its value.
    • : profitable use, as of a period of time.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounbettering; something bettered
Forms: improvements

Examples

  • Most noticeable is the improvement Biden has seen with older voters.

  • For starters, they’ve made vast improvements in their special teams play while in the bubble.

  • Apple updated the high end of its tablet range back in March, but the mid-range iPad Air has gone 18 months without improvement.

  • In early 2020, Alipay even made an improvement to its in-app search algorithm so users can directly search for the name of a stock or finance product, instead of accessing them through the menu.

  • Thanks to these and other performance improvements, Microsoft says a trillion-parameter model could be scaled across as few as 800 Nvidia V100 GPUs.

  • “If Charleston harbor needs improvement, let the commerce of Charleston bear the burden,” he said.

  • Never once was a box checked indicating that his work was unsatisfactory or needed improvement.

  • Another said just the act of spending money on self-improvement made him determined to break out of his shell.

  • Even though a fundamental improvement in relations soon is unlikely, it is right to test the North Koreans.

  • And this constitutes a bit of an improvement over 10 or 20 years ago.

  • Genoa has but recently and partially felt the new impulse, yet even here the march of improvement is visible.

  • The improvement of transport still further swelled the volume of production.

  • Goodness only knew what a falchion was, but there was the Griffin, and his history was an improvement upon the eternal Cat.

  • Perhaps our comic papers have never heard of the Improvement Clubs, or find nothing in them that is humorous.

  • The duke was agricultural above all things; he had a model estate bristling with scientific improvement.