Definition of Improvement
Improvement
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.
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.
The state of being improved; betterment; advance; also, that which is improved; as, the new edition is an improvement on the old.
Increase; growth; progress; advance.
Valuable additions or betterments, as buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises.
A useful addition to, or modification of, a machine, manufacture, or composition.
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Improvement Quotations
A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.
Thomas Jefferson
Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
Winston Churchill
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Benjamin Franklin
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
Benjamin Franklin
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
Benjamin Franklin
I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.
Steve Jobs
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.
Tom Peters
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
George Orwell
The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.
George Will
Improvement Translations
improvement in German is Neuerung
improvement in Italian is emendazione
improvement in Norwegian is forbedring
improvement in Spanish is mejora, mejoria
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