English-Thai: NECTEC's Lexitron-2 Dictionary [with local updates] improvement [N] การปรับปรุง, See also: การแก้ไข, การทำให้ดีขึ้น, Syn. amelioration, development, Ant. decay; deterioration

English-Thai: HOPE Dictionary [with local updates] improvement (อิมพรูฟว' เมินทฺ) n. การทำให้ดีขึ้น, การปรับปรุง, การแก้ไข, ภาวะหรือสภาพที่ดีขึ้น, สิ่งที่ถูกปรับปรุงให้ดีขึ้น, สิ่งที่ช่วยทำให้ดีขึ้น, S. betterment

English-Thai: Nontri Dictionary improvement (n) การปรับปรุง,การพัฒนา,การส่งเสริม,การแก้ไข

Thai-English: NECTEC's Lexitron-2 Dictionary [with local updates] การปรับปรุง [N] adaptation, See also: improvement; development, Syn. การแก้ไข, Example: การให้บริการของรัฐควรจะต้องมีการปรับปรุงให้โรงพยาบาลมีคุณภาพกล่าวคือการให้บริการต้องมีความรวดเร็วการให้บริการ, Thai definition: การแก้ไขให้เรียบร้อยหรือดียิ่งขึ้น

Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary (pronunciation guide only) improvement (n) (i1 m p r uu1 v m @ n t) improvements (n) (i1 m p r uu1 v m @ n t s)

CMU English Pronouncing Dictionary IMPROVEMENT IH2 M P R UW1 V M AH0 N T IMPROVEMENTS IH2 M P R UW1 V M AH0 N T S

Japanese-English: EDICT Dictionary 効率向上 [こうりつこうじょう, kouritsukoujou] improvement in efficiency [Add to Longdo] 体質改善 [たいしつかいぜん, taishitsukaizen] improvement of one's constitution, reformation [Add to Longdo]

German-English: TU-Chemnitz DING Dictionary Besserung {f}; Verbesserung {f}; Fortschritt {m}; Steigerung {f} improvement [Add to Longdo] Verbesserung {f}; Neuerung {f} | Verbesserungen {pl} | ökologische Verbesserungen improvement | improvements | ecological improvements [Add to Longdo] Verbesserungsvorschlag {m} | Verbesserungsvorschläge {pl} improvement suggestion; suggestion for improvement | improvement suggestions [Add to Longdo]

Result from Foreign Dictionaries (3 entries found)

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

  Improvement \Im*prove"ment\, n.
     1. The act of improving; advancement or growth; promotion in
        desirable qualities; progress toward what is better;
        melioration; as, the improvement of the mind, of land,
        roads, etc.
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              I look upon your city as the best place of
              improvement.                          --South.
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              Exercise is the chief source of improvement in all
              our faculties.                        --Blair.
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     2. The act of making profitable use or applicaton 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. "A
        good improvement of his reason." --S. Clarke.
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              I shall make some improvement of this doctrine.
                                                    --Tillotson.
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     3. The state of being improved; betterment; advance; also,
        that which is improved; as, the new edition is an
        improvement on the old.
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              The parts of Sinon, Camilla, and some few others,
              are improvements on the Greek poet.   --Addison.
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     4. Increase; growth; progress; advance.
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              There is a design of publishing the history of
              architecture, with its several improvements and
              decays.                               --Addison.
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              Those vices which more particularly receive
              improvement by prosperity.            --South.
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     5. pl. Valuable additions or betterments, as buildings,
        clearings, drains, fences, etc., on land or premises; as,
        to convey the land together with all improvements.
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     6. (Patent Laws) A useful addition to, or modification of, a
        machine, manufacture, or composition. --Kent.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:

  improvement
      n 1: the act of improving something; "their improvements
           increased the value of the property"
      2: a change for the better; progress in development [syn:
         {betterment}, {advance}]
      3: a condition superior to an earlier condition; "the new
         school represents a great improvement" [syn:
         {melioration}] [ant: {decline}]

From English-German Freedict dictionary [fd-eng-deu]:

  improvement [impruːvmənt]
     Besserung; Fortschritt; Neuerung; Verbesserung
  

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