ENRICHMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does enrichment mean? 

• ENRICHMENT (noun)
  The noun ENRICHMENT has 2 senses:

1. act of making fuller or more meaningful or rewarding

2. a gift that significantly increases the recipient's wealth

  Familiarity information: ENRICHMENT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENRICHMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Act of making fuller or more meaningful or rewarding

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("enrichment" is a kind of...):

improvement (the act of improving something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "enrichment"):

fortification (the addition of an ingredient for the purpose of enrichment (as the addition of alcohol to wine or the addition of vitamins to food))

dressing; fecundation; fertilisation; fertilization (making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure)

Derivation:

enrich (make better or improve in quality)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A gift that significantly increases the recipient's wealth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("enrichment" is a kind of...):

gift (something acquired without compensation)

Derivation:

enrich (make wealthy or richer)

 Context examples 

There was no enrichment of a single predominant genetic pathway in the data, reflecting the complexity of blood pressure influences.

(The genetics of blood pressure, NIH)

The idea would be to use acoustic enrichment just during the season when small fish arrive on reefs, not indefinitely.

(Loudspeakers used to attract fish back to dying coral reefs, SciDev.Net)

Such discharged nutrients may have increased in recent years due to increased deforestation and fertilizer use, though Hu noted that the evidence for nutrient enrichment is preliminary and based on limited available data, and the team needs more research to confirm this hypothesis.

(Satellites Find Biggest Seaweed Bloom in the World, NASA)

The idea behind ‘acoustic enrichment’ is that this can help kick-start coral reef recovery.

(Loudspeakers used to attract fish back to dying coral reefs, SciDev.Net)