Enhancement

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Enhancement \En*hance"ment\, n.
     The act of increasing, or state of being increased;
     augmentation; aggravation; as, the enhancement of value,
     price, enjoyments, crime.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  enhancement
       n : an improvement that makes something more agreeable [syn: {sweetening}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  109 Moby Thesaurus words for "enhancement":
     Great Leap Forward, accelerando, acceleration, advance,
     advancement, aggrandizement, aggravation, amelioration, amendment,
     amplification, annoyance, ascent, augmentation, ballyhoo,
     beefing-up, bettering, betterment, big talk, blowing up, blowup,
     boost, burlesque, caricature, complement, concentration,
     condensation, consolidation, contentiousness, deepening,
     deliberate aggravation, deterioration, dilatation, dilation,
     embittering, embitterment, enlargement, enrichment, eugenics,
     euthenics, exacerbation, exaggerating, exaggeration, exasperation,
     excess, exorbitance, expansion, explosion, extravagance, extreme,
     furtherance, grandiloquence, headway, heating-up, heightening,
     huckstering, hyperbole, hyperbolism, improvement, increase,
     inflation, information explosion, inordinacy, intensification,
     irritation, lift, magnification, melioration, mend, mending,
     overemphasis, overestimation, overkill, overstatement, pickup,
     population explosion, preferment, prodigality, profuseness,
     progress, progression, promotion, provocation, puffery, puffing up,
     recovery, redoubling, reinforcement, restoration, revival, rise,
     sensationalism, sharpening, souring, speedup, step-up,
     strengthening, stretching, superlative, tall talk, tightening,
     touting, travesty, upbeat, uplift, upping, upswing, uptrend,
     upward mobility, worsening
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  enhancement n. Common {marketroid}-speak for a bug {fix}. This abuse of
     language is a popular and time-tested way to turn incompetence into
     increased revenue. A hacker being ironic would instead call the fix a
     {feature} -- or perhaps save some effort by declaring the bug itself to
     be a feature.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  enhancement
       
          1. A change to a product which is intended to make it better
          in some way, e.g. new functions, faster, or occasionally more
          compatible with other systems.  Enhancements to {hardware}
          components, especially {integrated circuits} often mean they
          are smaller and less demanding of resources.  Sadly, this is
          almost never true of {software} enhancements.
       
          2. {Marketroid}-speak for a {bug fix}.  This abuse of language
          is a popular and time-tested way to turn incompetence into
          increased revenue.  A hacker being ironic would instead call
          the fix a {feature}, or perhaps save some effort by declaring
          "{That's not a bug, that's a feature!}".
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
          (1998-04-04)