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Addition is a related term of improvement.


As nouns the difference between addition and improvement

is that addition is addition while improvement is the act of improving]]; advancement or growth; [[promote|promotion in desirable qualities; progress toward what is better; melioration; as, the improvement of the mind, of land, roads, etc.

addition

English

(wikipedia addition)

Noun

  • (uncountable) The act of adding anything.
    • The addition of five more items to the agenda will make the meeting unbearably long.
  • Anything that is added.
  • (uncountable) The arithmetic operation of adding.
  • (music) A dot at the right side of a note as an indication that its sound is to be lengthened one half.
  • (legal) A title annexed to a person's name to identify him or her more precisely, as in "John Doe, Esq'.", "Robert Dale, '''Mason'''", "Thomas Way, ' of New York ".
  • (heraldry) Something added to a coat of arms, as a mark of honour; opposed to abatement.

    • See also

    * addition, summation: (augend) + (addend) = (summand) + (summand) = (sum, total) * subtraction: (minuend) ? (subtrahend) = (difference) * multiplication: (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (factor) × (factor) = (product) * division: (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient), remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividend

    Synonyms

    * (act of adding) adding, annexation, inclusion * (thing added) extra

    Antonyms

    * reduction

    Related terms

    * add * adder

    See also

    * plus sign ()

    References

    * ----

    improvement

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Alternative forms

    * emprovement (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of improving]]; advancement or growth; [[promote, promotion in desirable qualities; progress toward what is better; melioration; as, the improvement of the mind, of land, roads, etc.
  • * (Robert South)
    • I look upon your city as the best place of improvement .
  • * (Hugh Blair)
    • Exercise is the chief source of improvement in all our faculties.
  • * , chapter=19
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Engineers of a different kind , passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.
  • The act of making profitable use or application 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.
  • * (Samuel Clarke)
    • A good improvement of his reason.
  • * (John Tillotson)
    • I shall make some improvement of this doctrine.
  • The state of being improved; betterment; advance; also, that which is improved; as, the new edition is an improvement on the old.
  • * (Joseph Addison)
    • The parts of Sinon, Camilla, and some few others, are improvements on the Greek poet.
  • Increase; growth; progress; advance.
  • * (Joseph Addison)
    • There is a design of publishing the history of architecture, with its several improvements and decays.
  • * (Robert South)
    • Those vices which more particularly receive improvement by prosperity.
  • (plural): Valuable additions or betterments, as buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises.
  • (Patent Laws): A useful addition to, or modification of, a machine, manufacture, or composition.

    • Synonyms

    * improval