Enhancement may refer to:

Human body enhancement

Breast enhancement Breast enlargement is the enlargement of the breasts. It may occur naturally as in mammoplasia or may occur artificially through active intervention. Many women regard their breasts, which are female secondary sex characteristics, as important to th ...

, breast enlargement or contouring *

Cleavage enhancement Cleavage is the narrow depression or hollow between the breasts of a woman. The superior portion of cleavage may be accentuated by clothing such as a low-cut neckline that exposes the division, and often the term is used to describe the low neck ...

, an increase in the definition of breast cleavage *

Contrast enhancement A contrast agent (or contrast medium) is a substance used to increase the contrast of structures or fluids within the body in medical imaging. Contrast agents absorb or alter external electromagnetism or ultrasound, which is different from radiop ...

, enhancement of the contrast of structures or fluids within the body in medical imaging after administration of a contrast medium. *

Genetic enhancement Human genetic enhancement or human genetic engineering refers to human enhancement by means of a genetic modification. This could be done in order to cure diseases (gene therapy), prevent the possibility of getting a particular disease (similarly ...

, the use of genetic engineering to modify a person's nonpathological human traits *

Human enhancement Human enhancement (HE) can be described as the natural, artificial, or technological alteration of the human body in order to enhance physical or mental capabilities. Technologies Existing technologies Three forms of human enhancement curre ...

, augmentation of the human body to increase capability *

Male enhancement Penis enlargement, or male enhancement, is any technique aimed to increase the size of a human penis. Some methods aim to increase total length, others the shaft's girth, and yet others the glans size. Techniques include surgery, supplements, ...

, a euphemism for penis enlargement

Image enhancement

Edge enhancement Edge enhancement is an image processing filter that enhances the edge contrast of an image or video in an attempt to improve its acutance (apparent sharpness). The filter works by identifying sharp edge boundaries in the image, such as the edg ...

, an image-processing filter that increases the contrast of shape borders to improve its acutance (apparent sharpness) *

Image enhancement Image editing encompasses the processes of altering images, whether they are digital photographs, traditional photo-chemical photographs, or illustrations. Traditional analog image editing is known as photo retouching, using tools such as ...

, improvement to perceived image quality *

Shadow and highlight enhancement Shadow and highlight enhancement refers to an image processing technique used to correct exposure. The use of this technique has been gaining popularity, making its way onto magazine covers, digital media, and photos. It is, however, considered by ...

, an image processing technique to correct exposure

Acoustical signal enhancement

Acoustic enhancement Acoustic enhancement is a subtle type of sound reinforcement system used to augment direct, reflected, or reverberant sound. While sound reinforcement systems are usually used to increase the sound level of the sound source (like a person speaking ...

, the augmentation of direct, reflected, or reverberant sound waves without resorting to electronic sound reinforcement *

Blip enhancement Blip enhancement is an electronic warfare technique used to fool radar. When the radar transmits a burst of energy some of that energy is reflected off a target and is received back at the radar and processed to determine range and angle. The refl ...

, an electronic warfare technique used to fool radar *

Forensic audio enhancement Forensic audio enhancement is the scientific analysis and improvement of audio clarity, typically to improve intelligibility. Although the term is "enhancement", the process is almost entirely composed of filtering away unwanted sounds in order ...

, the scientific analysis and improvement of audio clarity, especially to improve intelligibility *

Orchestral enhancement Orchestral enhancement is the technique of using orchestration techniques, architectural modifications, or electronic technologies to modify the sound, complexity, or color of a musical theatre, ballet or opera pit orchestra. Orchestral enhanceme ...

, using orchestration techniques, architecture, or electronic sound reinforcement to modify the sound of a live musical performance *

Speech enhancement Speech enhancement aims to improve speech quality by using various algorithms. The objective of enhancement is improvement in intelligibility and/or overall perceptual quality of degraded speech signal using audio signal processing techniques. E ...

, the improvement of speech quality via audio signal processing

Software enhancement

Progressive enhancement Progressive enhancement is a strategy in web design that puts emphasis on web content first, allowing everyone to access the basic content and functionality of a web page, whilst users with additional browser features or faster Internet access r ...

, a web application design that provides a usable experience to users of a broad spectrum of web browsers, but gives additional features to users of more sophisticated web browsers *

Software enhancement In software, the term feature has several definitions. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers defines the term ''feature'' in IEEE 829 as " distinguishing characteristic of a software item (e.g., performance, portability, or funct ...

, a proposed or newly added software feature *

Web enhancement A web enhancement is a bonus expansion to a role-playing game product, that can be read and/or downloaded from the website of the company that published the role-playing product it is associated with. Concept The web enhancement concept was created ...

, official downloadable content published via the World Wide Web for a video game

Other uses

Antibody-dependent enhancement Antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE), sometimes less precisely called immune enhancement or disease enhancement, is a phenomenon in which binding of a virus to suboptimal antibodies enhances its entry into host cells, followed by its rep ...

, an increase in viral infection facilitated by the host's own antibodies *

Diamond enhancement Diamond enhancements are specific treatments, performed on natural diamonds (usually those already cut and polished into gems), which are designed to improve the visual gemological characteristics of the diamond in one or more ways. These include ...

, a treatment that improves the gemological characteristics of a natural diamond *

Hydrogen fuel enhancement Hydrogen fuel enhancement is the process of using a mixture of hydrogen and conventional hydrocarbon fuel in an internal combustion engine, typically in a car or truck, in an attempt to improve fuel economy, power output, emissions, or a combinat ...

, adding hydrogen to conventional hydrocarbon fuel in an attempt to improve the fuel economy and/or power output of an internal combustion engine *

Input enhancement Input enhancement (IE) is a concept in second language acquisition. Mike Sharwood Smith coined the term to cover techniques used by researchers to make salient selected features of a language for students such as word order, parts of words that e ...

, a technique for teaching a language to non-native speakers *

Seed enhancement Seed enhancement is a range of treatments of seeds that improves their performance after harvesting and conditioned, but before they are sown. They include priming, steeping, hardening, pregermination, pelleting, encrusting, film-coating, tagging a ...

, pre-sowing treatment to improve seed performance *

Self-enhancement Self-enhancement is a type of motivation that works to make people feel good about themselves and to maintain self-esteem. This motive becomes especially prominent in situations of threat, failure or blows to one's self-esteem. Self-enhancement inv ...

, an overly positive self-assessment *

Sexual enhancement A sex toy is an object or device that is primarily used to facilitate human sexual pleasure, such as a dildo, artificial vagina or vibrator. Many popular sex toys are designed to resemble human genitals, and may be vibrating or non-vibrati ...

, sex toy

Human body enhancement

Image enhancement

Acoustical signal enhancement

Software enhancement

Other uses

See also