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Type Words
Synonyms amelioration, betterment
Type of improvement
Derivation meliorate
Type Words
Synonyms improvement
Type of condition, status
Has types reformation, development, renovation, restoration, betterment, refurbishment
Derivation meliorate
Type Words
Type of drift
Derivation meliorate

Examples of melioration

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Refining and melioration, new products could developg.
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In historical linguistics, this phenomenon is known as melioration, or amelioration, or semantic change.
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Climate has much to do with this melioration.
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As Gower describes it, his father's ideals weren't so much about improbable utopias as aggressive melioration of what was already at hand.
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The South Morava, which represent the natural headwaters of the Morava, used to be longer than the West Morava, but due to the regulations of river bed and melioration, today it is shorter.
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Molecular behaviorists use notions from melioration theory, negative power function discounting or additive versions of negative power function discounting.
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  • Amelioration: the act of relieving ills and changing for the better
  • Improvement: a condition superior to an earlier condition; "the new school represents a great improvement"
  • The linguistic process in which over a period of time a word grows more positive in connotation or more elevated in meaning
  • (meliorate) better: to make better; "The editor improved the manuscript with his changes"
  • An explanation of matching which claims that the organism will always respond so as to improve the local rate of reinforcement. This ultimately leads to a steady state of behavior that matches the rates of reinforcement on the two alternatives.