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Definition of Refinements

Refinement
Refinement Re*fine"ment (r?*f?n"ment), n. [Cf. F. raffinement.] 1. The act of refining, or the state of being refined; as, the refinement or metals; refinement of ideas. The more bodies are of kin to spirit in subtilty and refinement, the more diffusive are they. --Norris. From the civil war to this time, I doubt whether the corruptions in our language have not equaled its refinements. --Swift. 2. That which is refined, elaborated, or polished to excess; an affected subtilty; as, refinements of logic. ``The refinements of irregular cunning.' --Rogers. Syn: Purification; polish; politeness; gentility; elegance; cultivation; civilization.

Meaning of Refinements from wikipedia

- Look up refinement in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Refinement may refer to: Equilibrium refinement, the identification of actualized equilibria in...
- Refinement is a generic term of computer science that encomp****es various approaches for producing correct computer programs and simplifying existing programs...
- type theory, a refinement type is a type endowed with a predicate which is ****umed to hold for any element of the refined type. Refinement types can express...
- And Their Refinement of the Decline is the seventh and final studio album by Stars of the Lid, which was released by Kranky in April 2007. The album was...
- star refinement is a particular kind of refinement of an open cover of X. A related concept is the notion of barycentric refinement. Star refinements are...
- Rietveld refinement is a technique described by Hugo Rietveld for use in the characterisation of crystalline materials. The neutron and X-ray diffraction...
- In mesh generation, Delaunay refinements are algorithms for mesh generation based on the principle of adding Steiner points to the geometry of an input...
- In numerical analysis, adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) is a method of adapting the accuracy of a solution within certain sensitive or turbulent regions...
- The refinement calculus is a formalized approach to stepwise refinement for program construction. The required behaviour of the final executable program...
- Schreier refinement theorem of group theory states that any two subnormal series of subgroups of a given group have equivalent refinements, where two...