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enhance (verb), enhances; enhanced; enhancing
1. The act of making something greater in value, beauty, or effectiveness: The property owner enhanced his house and yard area in order to give his real estate greater value.
2. To provide with improved, advanced, or sophisticated features: Erin's new computer software will enhance her ability to do more work faster.
3. To raise to a higher degree; to intensify; to magnify: Enhance often has the sense of qualitative improvement; especially, of making something more pleasant or enjoyable; such as, when an orchestra enhances its musical quality by practicing more and finding the best talent available.

So, simply stated, enhance means "to raise, to increase".

4. To make better or more attractive: Audrey’s physical exercises at the local fitness studio, where she goes at least five times every week or as often as possible, has enhanced her body and health.
5. Etymology: from about 1280, anhaunsen, "to raise, to make higher"; later enhauncen, "raise in station, wealth, fame". Borrowed from Anglo-French enhauncer, enhalcier, "to make greater", from Vulgar Latin inaltiare, alteration of Late Latin inaltare, "to raise, to exalt".
—Excerpts from The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology,
Robert K. Barnhart, Editor; The H.W. Wilson Company,
Bronx, New York; 1988.
To make or to become greater.
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To increase or to make above the normal.
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enhanced (adjective)
1. That which is increased or intensified in value or beauty or quality: "The enhanced performances of the school orchestra was a result of the dedication of the musical director and his talented and hardworking musicians."
2. Improved quality, amount, or strength: "The author's enhanced novels and short stories increased over the years because she continued to improve the content with every new production."
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(an exhibit of artistically enhanced hands showing creative marvels)
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enhanced geothermal system (s) (noun), enhanced geothermal systems (pl)
A system used to extract heat from the less productive margins of existing geothermal fields, or from entirely new fields that are lacking sufficient production capacity under current conditions by utilizing a combination of hydraulic, thermal, and chemical processes; such as, rock fracturing, water injection, or water circulation.
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enhanced recovery (s) (noun), enhanced recoveries (pl)
An enhanced process that involves the injection of water, steam, gases, or chemicals into underground oil reservoirs to cause the oil to flow towards producing wells, permitting more recovery than would have been possible from natural pressure or primary and secondary recovery methods.
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