enrichment

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the act or process of improving the quality or power of something by adding something else:

The soil needs constant enrichment with organic matter.

The children who do well on such tests are those whose parents read to them and take them on enrichment excursions.

the act of making someone richer, or of becoming richer:

personal enrichment There was never any suggestion that they were seeking personal enrichment.

Their goal is not the good of the people, but their own enrichment.

the process of increasing the level of a particular isotope (= one form of an atom) in an element in order to make it more powerful or make it explode more powerfully:

uranium enrichment He said that sanctions would not force his country to suspend uranium enrichment.