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单词 refinement
释义
refinement
noun
uk
/rɪˈfaɪn.mənt/us
/rɪˈfaɪn.mənt/

refinementnoun(CHANGE)

[U]
theprocessof making asubstancepure:
提炼；提纯；精炼
The refinement ofrawopiumyieldsotherdrugs, such asmorphine.生鸦片经过提炼产生其他药物，如吗啡。
[CorU]
asmallchangethatimprovessomething:
（精细的）改进，完善
These refinements haveincreasedthe machine'saccuracyby 25percent.经过这些改进，机器的准确率提高了25%。
Clearly, thehypothesisdoes need some refinement, in thelightof thesesurprisingresults.很显然，从这些令人惊讶的结果来看，该假设确实需要进一步完善。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Correcting and mending
  • calibration
  • clean(someone/something)up
  • correction
  • fiddle (around) withsomething
  • fine-tune
  • mess
  • put/setsomeonerightidiom
  • recondition
  • reconstruct
  • reconstruction
  • rectification
  • remedy
  • revise
  • revised
  • set/put the record straightidiom
  • smoothsomethingaway
  • smoothen
  • sort
  • sortsomethingout
  • tinker
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Industrial processing
Becoming better
Changing

refinementnoun(POLITENESS)

[U]
aqualityofpolitenessandeducation:
文雅；高雅；有教养
She's thepersonificationofcultureand refinement.她是文化与教养的化身。
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Manners & levels of formality
  • buttoned-down
  • casualization
  • ceremonious
  • ceremoniously
  • ceremony
  • formality
  • formally
  • genteel
  • genteelly
  • gentility
  • grace
  • mindyourp's and q'sidiom
  • non-formal
  • non-U
  • not the done thingidiom
  • over-familiar
  • solemnity
  • unbuttoned
  • valediction
  • valedictory
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(Definition ofrefinementfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

refinement| American Dictionary

refinement
noun[C/U]
us
/rɪˈfɑɪn·mənt/
theprocessofimprovingsomething:
[C]Theaccuracyof themachinehas beenincreasedthrough anumberof refinements.
[U]The refinement ofsugarcaneproducessugar.
Refinement alsomeansmeansthequalityofpolitenessseenin someone'sbehavior:
[U]Shegrewup in ahomeenvironmentofcultureand refinement.
(Definition ofrefinementfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

refinement| Business English

refinement
noun
uk
/rɪˈfaɪnmənt/us
[U]PRODUCTION
theprocessof making asubstancepure:
The refinement ofrawopiumyieldsotherdrugs, such asmorphine.
[CorU]
asmallchangethatimprovessomething:
These refinements haveincreasedthe machine'saccuracyby 25%.
Long-termcostreductionswill beachievedthrough the refinement ofoperations.
(Definition ofrefinementfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofrefinement

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The influence of these refinements on the conductivity of gold is illustrated figure 1!.
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By 1750 law enforcement was still overshadowed by the gallows, but it had acquired many refinements, not least in its preventative and investigative functions.
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With the benefit of these refinements, single females in the younger age category emerge as more likely selecting lower risk investment choices in this study.
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In the first, the different structures represent independent refinements against the raw data and do not ' see ' each other.
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Having established the benefits of the linear programming approach over value iteration, we now turn to refinements on the linear programming algorithm, namely, constraint generation.
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In this way, we are losing verbal harmonies and comedy as surely as we are losing refinements of meaning through the spread of malapropisms.
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In the first part of the twentieth century, there were crucial refinements in concepts and measurements of information.
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Here, as in any case, they begin with the models, preabstracted objects, and use selective observations to justify refinements.
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There are several refinements to this organisation which enrich the possible readings of the various spaces.
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Obviously, one cannot introduce tectonic refinements, however modest, if the sole logic of the enterprise is to build as cheaply as possible no matter what.
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We construct such a family using refinements of the classical cutting and stacking methods.
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Of course, it is now clear that, mathematically, these additional refinements are unjustified within the uniformly valid approximation.
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Underlying self-regulatory processes are refinements in cortical neurobiology.
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In this paper, we will propose refinements of our recursive method above.
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Then we add some refinements originating in probabilistic number theory (see [9]).
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