improvement

improvement has 9 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 11.

Definitions

• n.. 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.
• n.. 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.
• n.. The state of being improved; betterment; advance; also, that which is improved; as, the new edition is an improvement on the old.
• n.. Increase; growth; progress; advance.
• n.. Valuable additions or betterments, as buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises.
• n.. A useful addition to, or modification of, a machine, manufacture, or composition.
• n.. the act of improving something; "their improvements increased the value of the property"
• n.. a change for the better; progress in development
• n.. a condition superior to an earlier condition; "the new school represents a great improvement"