improved adj

1 made more desirable or valuable or profitable; especially made ready for use or marketing; "new houses are springing up on an improved tract of land near the river"; "an improved breed" [ant: unimproved]

2 become or made better in quality; "was proud of his improved grades"; "an improved viewfinder"

3 (of land) made ready for development or agriculture by clearing of trees and brush; "improved farmlands"

English

Pronunciation

Adjective

en-adj more

1. something that has been made better; enhanced

Translations

• Finnish: paranneltu
• Romanian: îmbunătăţit

Verb

improved

1. past of improve

Improve means to make something better. It may also refer to:

Improver

wikt improver

• Bread improver
• Improver Corporation: Improver v Remington, a 1990 United Kingdom patent infringement law court case

Improved

wikt improved

• Improved clinch knot, a knot
• Most Improved Player, a sports award
• New and improved, a popular advertising slogan
  • New and Improved, a 2001 music album by Mice
• Improved Order of Heptasophs, an 1878 fraternal organization

Technology

• LNWR Improved Precedent Class, a steam locomotive
• Improved-definition television (IDTV)
• Improved Touring, a category of classifications for cars in amateur road racing
• Improved Orion, a sounding rocket

Improvement

wikt improvement

• Improvement Era, magazine of the Church of the Latter-Day Saints from 1897-1970
• Home improvement, the process of renovating or making additions to a home
• Home Improvement, a 1990s television show
• Airport Improvement Fee
• Natural vision improvement

Government

• Improvement commissioners, an early form of government in 18th-century Britain
• Improvement and Development Agency, a 1998 British governmental agency
• Improvement district
• Land improvement
• Improvement district
• Capital Improvement Plan
• Environmental Quality Improvement Act

Healthcare

• Quality improvement organizations
• The Health Improvement Network, a United Kingdom medical database

Organizational

• Achievement Improvement Monitor, an Australian educational testing system
• Improvement trust
• Ontario Swine Improvement
• Organic Crop Improvement Association
• South Improvement Company, a railroad-oil-related Pennsylvania corporation in the early 1870s
• Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League

Business management

• Business Process Improvement
• Continual improvement
• Performance improvement/Performance improvement plan
• Focused improvement
• Quality improvement

Technology

• Network Improvement, in telecommunications
• Preemphasis improvement, in radio
  • FM improvement threshold
  • FM improvement factor
• Improved Multi-Band Excitation, a vocoder
• Improvement Support Systems

See also

• Improv
• Better

Wikipedia

• Wikipedia:Improving Wikipedia
• Wikipedia:Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive
• Article improvement template

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